Post by marchesarosa on Feb 25, 2011 11:43:33 GMT 1
"From MIT, something surprising. Like alignment of iron atoms in a magnet, microbes in seawater can align and change the albedo. It makes me wonder how much seawater can be warming by light absorption in ENSO events, which change currents. Perhaps there is a contribution, I don’t know, but it is very interesting."
More here
wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/24/a-mircobe-albedo-effect-for-ocean-light-absorption/
and here
Scientists say ocean currents cause microbes to filter light web.mit.edu/press/2011/stocker-microbes.html
Roman Stocker, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT and lead author on a paper www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/02/17/1014576108.abstract about this work. “This implies that fluid flow, which is typically neglected in models of marine optics, may exert an important control on light propagation, influencing the rates of carbon fixation and how we estimate these rates via remote sensing.”
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Everyday research findings are produced which make one understand that we have so far only scratched the surface of understanding the complexity of our planet. Marvelous stuff. Long may it keep on coming!
It is important to be aware that outside the tiny politically motivated IPCC warmist clique real science is still being practised and useful increments to knowledge are still progressing. This sort of work makes the IPCC's palaeo treering temperature proxy work look sad.
More here
wattsupwiththat.com/2011/02/24/a-mircobe-albedo-effect-for-ocean-light-absorption/
and here
Scientists say ocean currents cause microbes to filter light web.mit.edu/press/2011/stocker-microbes.html
Roman Stocker, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT and lead author on a paper www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/02/17/1014576108.abstract about this work. “This implies that fluid flow, which is typically neglected in models of marine optics, may exert an important control on light propagation, influencing the rates of carbon fixation and how we estimate these rates via remote sensing.”
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Everyday research findings are produced which make one understand that we have so far only scratched the surface of understanding the complexity of our planet. Marvelous stuff. Long may it keep on coming!
It is important to be aware that outside the tiny politically motivated IPCC warmist clique real science is still being practised and useful increments to knowledge are still progressing. This sort of work makes the IPCC's palaeo treering temperature proxy work look sad.
