Forests, Plants and Oceans: No Longer Able to Clean-Up Excess CO2

One of the latest entries from Professor Van Cotthem's blog (Desertification...to the right), states that Forests are Losing their Ability to Trap CO2. Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder have discovered that the original studies are incorrect. It seems that longer growing seasons DO NOT increase plant carbon uptake.

If you add to this discovery the results of another study contained in this blog - Can Climate Change Without Increases in Atmospheric CO2? - that the ability of plants and oceans to absorb carbon dioxide is beginning to decline which will begin to cause an increase in airborne anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, then we might be in trouble.

So, if forests, plants and oceans are having problems absorbing these emissions, then that does not leave many other ecosystems with the ability to clean-up earth's atmospheric mess.