Climate fear as carbon levels soar

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Climate fear as carbon levels soar Carefully reproted with an emphasis on the fact that it is really too early to know what the significance may be. Of course the fear is that it could be that we've just reached the tip-over opint into a run away warming loop. I hope that the sensible counsel here is the truth, and it seems the sanest comment:

"My guess is that there were extra forest fires in the northern hemisphere, and particularly a very hot summer in Europe," Dr Cox said. "This led to a die-back in vegetation and an increase in release of carbon from the soil, rather than more growing plants taking carbon out of the atmosphere, which is usually the case in summer."



Problem is that small amounts of carbon dioxide have big effects and then there is the potential for exponentiality.