Yet another nail in the global warming coffin.... (country)

[plwhit]

This time from Swedish scientists.....

If these scientists are correct lowering CO2 is the last thing we should be doing....

A group of Swedish scientists at the University of Gothenburg have published a paper in which they argue that spreading peatlands are inexorably driving planet Earth into its next ice age, and the only thing holding back catastrophe is humanity's hotly debated atmospheric carbon emissions.

Naturally this theory runs counter to the global warming scenario as presented by many other scientists and most of the media. That stance has lately been boosted by wildly unjustifiable assertions that global warming caused Hurricane Sandy. Unfortunately if you believe that isolated events prove theories, you would pretty much have to accept that global warming has stopped: ten to fifteen years of flat temperatures, or even a few very cold winters - both of which have just happened - are a lot more significant than one storm (and they atill aren't significant enough to mean anything much in a climate context).

Swedish boffins: An ICE AGE is coming, only CO2 can save us ? The Register

[Konraden]

The paper can be found here if anyone is interested in disassembling it.

[plwhit]

Originally Posted by Konraden

The paper can be found here if anyone is interested in disassembling it.

If people read the article that URL is embedded in it....

[Konraden]

I have little doubt this is what The Register is getting fired up about.

On a CO2 basis the estimated
global peatland carbon sink could potentially cause
a net negative radiative warming (i.e. cooling)
approaching -5 W m−2. Hence, when added to other
terrestrial and marine sinks, the final peatland sink
might be a decisive factor in lowering the
atmospheric CO2 concentration to the critical
threshold level required for neoglaciation, according
to the P/IAH.

Which would happen becuase...

A higher humidity with increased precipitation
could lead to primary or increased marginal
paludification and hence increased peatland area.

Because

The signal of future climate change across Sweden
is strongest for the winter season and in the northern
parts of the country, for both temperature and
precipitation.

This is not a "nail in the coffin for climate change," as you say. Not only is climate changed acknowledged here, but it describes that increased temperatures and precipitation resulting from it, could expand the Swedish peatlands, which mightresult in a CO2 sink which could pull CO2 out of the air, combined with other sinks (like oceans and trees), end up lowering CO2.