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I haven't read the article yet, and it's already a no-brainier that CO2 has an exponential decay. But the comment that the sink rate has increased surprises me. With a warming ocean, the sink rate should be declining. Maybe over the long term, it is, and some cyclical event is causing it to be higher rather than lower right now.Empirical Validation of the Exponential Decay for Surplus CO2
Guest essay by Ari Halperin My new scientific paper Empirical Validation of the Exponential Decay for Surplus CO2 further validates the conclusion that surplus CO2 in the air decays exponentially. The half-life is re-estimated down to 30-35 years. Further, if the CO2 sink rate has changed in the last 100 years, it has increased rather…
1 day ago March 26, 2016 in Carbon dioxide.
There are four things I can think of off the top of my head that would increase the sink rate other than SST (sea surface temperature.)
1) Faster winds than average in the polar ocean regions. Wind velocity has a direct effect on the partial pressure exchange of gas.
2) Slower winds than average in the equatorial regions. Same wind velocity reason.
3) Other factors increasing the rate at which plants absorb CO2. Maybe higher than normal precipitation, allowing faster growth.
4) Maybe land use and natural recovery of lands has the global vegetation area increasing rather than shrinking.
Another possibility is we are being lied to, and the SST is actually decreasing rather than increasing.