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http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/609497/Climate-change-shock-Earth-s-natural-global-coolant-discovered
Research has identified a natural system where volatile organic compounds (VOC) are emitted into the air from the sea.
These VOCs cause the climate to cool and may explain why world temperatures have remained stable for around 15 years, despite widespread claims that global warming is out of control.
The German government's Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research found a key VOC known as Isoprene, which was only thought to have been produced by living organisms such as plankton, is actually also created by the sun hitting chemicals at the top of the ocean.
Measurements had estimated 1.9 megatons of isoprene was emitted each year but the new, groundbreaking discovery shows an increase of between 0.2 and 3.5 megatons annually.
Critics of climate change say the research - published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology - throws previous estimates of rising temperatures into doubt.
Instead, they claim, it suggests any man-made damage is being countered by the planet's natural cooling processes.
Dr Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, said: “Here is more evidence of what we have known for some time: that climate models simply do not mirror the reality of a chaotic system – and that they should never have been trusted in the first place."
The report shows isoprene is produced from non-living chemicals in the sea. After rising into the atmosphere, these help create clouds, which reduce temperatures.
LITR said: "Atmospheric chemists from France and Germany can now show that isoprene can also be formed without biological sources in the surface film of the oceans by sunlight and so explain the large discrepancy between field measurements and models.
"The new identified photochemical reaction is therefore important to improve the climate models."
Research has identified a natural system where volatile organic compounds (VOC) are emitted into the air from the sea.
These VOCs cause the climate to cool and may explain why world temperatures have remained stable for around 15 years, despite widespread claims that global warming is out of control.
The German government's Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research found a key VOC known as Isoprene, which was only thought to have been produced by living organisms such as plankton, is actually also created by the sun hitting chemicals at the top of the ocean.
Measurements had estimated 1.9 megatons of isoprene was emitted each year but the new, groundbreaking discovery shows an increase of between 0.2 and 3.5 megatons annually.
Critics of climate change say the research - published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology - throws previous estimates of rising temperatures into doubt.
Instead, they claim, it suggests any man-made damage is being countered by the planet's natural cooling processes.
Dr Benny Peiser, director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, said: “Here is more evidence of what we have known for some time: that climate models simply do not mirror the reality of a chaotic system – and that they should never have been trusted in the first place."
The report shows isoprene is produced from non-living chemicals in the sea. After rising into the atmosphere, these help create clouds, which reduce temperatures.
LITR said: "Atmospheric chemists from France and Germany can now show that isoprene can also be formed without biological sources in the surface film of the oceans by sunlight and so explain the large discrepancy between field measurements and models.
"The new identified photochemical reaction is therefore important to improve the climate models."
