alt Hacker News>I think climate scientists can enumerate major carbon sources and sinks
Science has no idea where 2-3 gigatons of carbon go every year. That's a BIG number. And it is a big deal. And it has been missing for decades now. All the time you were calling someone a science denier, you've been completely unaware that you can't even account for all the major carbon sources/sinks.
https://www2.nau.edu/~gaud/bio326/class/ecosyst/whrcmissc.ht...
https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/new-global-carbon-da...
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So instead of funding more research into a potentially important unknown, as you say, we should just.. not?
Science hasn't figured out how the entire planet works yet so we should do less science?
Okay, so climate scientists openly researching and refining their theories around an extremely complex topic (carbon's continually changing relationship to every biosphere on earth) is evidence of... malpractice, conspiracy?
FWIW I was aware of the biosphere as a carbon sink because I learned it in middle school 20 years ago. Thanks for giving me a reason to learn about the interesting and difficult challenges in determining where and through which process that sinking is occurring :)
> Science has no idea where 2-3 gigatons of carbon go every year. That's a BIG number.
That's a big number and a small percentage. The latter is what matters.