***Turns out this John O’Sullivan is purposefully deceptive, can’t read well, doesn’t understand Japanese, or all three. My apologies for posting a bunk piece of crap disguised as something legitimate*** Wood.
By: John O’Sullivan
Industrialized nations emit far less carbon dioxide than the Third World, according to latest evidence from Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
Global warming alarmism is turned on its head and the supposed role of carbon dioxide in climate change may be wrong, if the latest evidence from Japan’s scientists is to be believed.
Japanese national broadcaster, NHK World broke the astonishing story on their main Sunday evening news bulletin (October 30, 2011). Television viewers learned that the country’s groundbreaking IBUKU satellite, launched in June 2009, appears to have scorched an indelible hole in conventional global warming theory.
Standing in front of a telling array of colorful graphs, sober-suited Yasuhiro Sasano, Director of Japan’s National Institute for Environmental Studies told viewers, “The [IBUKU satellite] map is to help us discover how much each region needs to reduce CO2 [carbon dioxide] emissions.”
Industrialized Nations World’s Lowest CO2 ‘Polluters’
Indeed, the map at which JAXA spokesman Sasano was pointing been expected by most experts to show that western nations are to blame for substantial increases in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, causing global warming. But to an officious looking TV interviewer Sasano turned greenhouse gas theory on it’s head.
According to UN science the greenhouse gas theory says more CO2 entering the atmosphere will warm the planet, while less CO2 is associated with cooling.
Gesturing to an indelible deep green hue streaked across the United States and Europe viewers were told, “in the high latitudes of the Northern hemisphere emissions were less than absorption levels.”
Sasano proceeded to explain the color-coding system of the iconic maps showing where regions were either absorbing or emitting the trace atmospheric gas. Regions were alternately colored red (for high CO2 emission), white (low or neutral CO2 emissions) and green (no emissions: CO2 absorbers).
Bizarrely, the IBUKU maps prove exactly the opposite of all conventional expectations revealing that the least industrialized regions are the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases on the planet.
Yes, you read that correctly: the U.S. and western European nations are areas where CO2 levels are lowest. This new evidence defies the consensus view promoted by mainstream newspapers, such as the New York Times.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had long claimed that, “there is a consensus among scientists that manmade emissions of greenhouse gases, notably carbon dioxide (CO2), are harming global climate.”
The Japanese satellite map shows regions colored the deepest leaf green (net absorbers of CO2) being predominantly those developed nations of Europe and North America; thus indicating built up environments absorbed more CO2 than they emitted into the atmosphere.
By contrast the bulk of the regions colored red (so-called ‘carbon polluters’) were in undeveloped, densely forested equatorial regions of Africa and South America.
Huge Headache for Climate Policymakers
JAXA boasts that, “we can reduce the error of the estimated values when we introduce IBUKI’s observation data compared to that of the values calculated in a conventional way based on ground observation data.”
To all policymakers who study the Japanese maps it is apparent that the areas of greatest CO2 emissions are those regions with least human development and most natural vegetation: Equatorial Third World nations.
The Japanese evidence also disproves the often-cited hypothesis that Siberia and other areas of northern Russia were natural vents for large scale CO2 outgassing, exacerbating global warming fears.
In effect, this compelling new data appears to show that the asphalt and concreted industrial nations are ‘mopping up’ carbon dioxide faster than their manufacturers and consumers can emit it. If this is confirmed, it means a cornerstone of man-made global warming may be in serious doubt.
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That’s the most dishonest interpretation of the data I’ve seen yet from your posts, Wood.
I recommend that you reconsider the value of reading co2insanity.com
What the Japanese claimed, and what their graphs show, is that the addition of satellite data reduced the size of the error bars when measuring CO2 flux rates for given time periods for given geographic areas.
1) no climate theory has been dented, much less overturned
(the article is so poorly written, that it isn’t clear what theory the author thinks has been contradicted, but the data from Japan is very much in agreement with previous data, and so doesn’t alter the current standing of any climate theory)
2) the claim that “in the high latitudes of the Northern hemisphere emissions were less than absorption levels” is only seasonally true.
In summer, the Northern latitudes are net CO2 absorbers. In summer, the opposite is true:
July 2009
January 2010
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency source page
3) The Japanese measurements were in good agreement with existing data, especially for the developed regions, where there are substantial numbers of ground-based measurement sites. In the figure linked below, the older estimates and uncertainties are represented by the green line and the green band. The measurements incorporating the new Japanese satellite data are shown as a blue line with blue error bars (source page is the same as above:
http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2011/10/img/20111028_ibuki2.gif
4) There is nothing new and exciting about learning that a geographic area is or is not a net emitter of CO2 (particularly when that fact is already common knowledge in the field). What matters is how human activity is altering net emissions over time. If an area is a net absorber of CO2, but would be absorbing much more CO2 in the absence of human activity, then it would be quite wrong to say that the population in that area is to be congratulated for reducing CO2 emissions.
Ott, you’re right it is misleading, at best. My apologies. That is the first time I’ve ever visited C02insanity. I don’t recall where I came across the link to it.
You earned a thumbs up, for gentleman-ness.
John O’Sullivan is a humbug who has been passing himself off as a highly successful lawyer with a law degree from University College, Cork, the University of Surrey, and “Hill University”; a member of the American Bar Association; a legal consultant for the BC law firm Pearlman Lindholm; and the author of articles in the National Review — that were actually written by the magazine’s editor-at-large.
Mr. O’Sullivan is an utter charlatan and his cons are finally catching up to him.
Following an investigation by the Law Society of British Columbia, he was forced to delete his bogus claim of being employed by the BC law firm Pearlman Lindholm from his online resumes. He also stopped falsely identifying himself as a member of the American Bar Association.
Contrary to his latest lies, the BC Law Society did NOT clear him of all wrong doing. The society is currently investigating him for unauthorized law practice.
And the New York County Lawyers’ Association is now investigating what if any law school actually gave him a degree. In the past, he claimed University College, Cork, the University of Surrey, and most recently, the bogus online diploma mill “Hill University.”
There’s a lot more information about the humbug on Prof. Judith Curry’s web site:
Prof. Judith Curry’s web site: