ANI reports at Science News that soil microbes are producing less atmospheric carbon dioxide than scientists expected, according to research at our own UCI.
The findings, which included study by Colorado State and Yale universities, are published in the journal Nature Geoscience and conclude that: “Microbes play a central role in ecological processes, and their responses change our understanding of natural communities in fundamental ways.”
As Science News at taragana.com blog says, “Conventional scientific wisdom holds that even a few degrees of human-caused climate warming will shift fungi and bacteria that consume soil-based carbon into overdrive, and that their growth will accelerate the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.”
The problem is research found otherwise. Darn that pesky research science, getting in the way of “settled science.” Again. Bottom line: instead of speeding up, the microbes were not well adapted and their growth slowed, so did enzyme production.
One researcher remarked: “The issue we have in predicting whether soil carbon loss will accelerate climate warming is that the microbial processes causing this loss are poorly understood.”
Ya think? But what the heck. Let’s go ahead and destroy the world’s economic system on the hunch that politically inspired global warming “scientists” have settled the matter.