BBC, Royal Society President Misled Public Over CO2 Emissions

News on the Net , Bio and Archives--February 3, 2011

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By Bishop Hill After the Paul Nurse programme the other day, eyebrows were raised over one of the claims in the show, namely that emissions from fossil fuel burning dwarfed natural emissions. Here's an excerpt from the transcript:

Bob Bindschadler: We know how much fossil fuel we take out of the ground. We know how much we sell. We know how much we burn. And that is a huge amount of carbon dioxide. It's about seven gigatons per year right now. Paul Nurse: And is that enough to explain...?

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