One point that we need to get to grips with regarding this issue is not that we have overestimated the ability of the environment to absorb carbon compounds but the fact that if the amount absorbed, less the amount emitted is less than previously thought then it will mean we have an even bigger impact on the climate. Our emissions will overload the deficit by a greater amount than we previously thought and this is also an accounting error of cataclysmic proportions for the planet.
Time we stopped the pollution and started to really behave like mature, caring adults and not like children in the chocolate factory.

I agree completely. Our intelligent investors including the suppliers of basic necessities are acting as if they are not fellow travelers on a space ship, but rather as some how isolated privileged dignitaries.

We all need to use the space granted to us as if everyone's life depended on it. This involves having a first job of making the best environmental decisions we can. In fact it would be better for everyone if we paid everyone to do this job well before they did anything else. So that every aspect of life was subject to a decision about how it would affect everyone and everything.

This does illustrate how important expanding measurement capabilities globally really are...

Also, I was under the impression that erosion of the land via water and wind sequesters a large amount of C into the oceans, eventually forming one component of the limestone forming sediments.
Maybe not counting this explains the "accounting error"...somewhat.

Another example that we 'know not what we are doing'.

Accounting errors, whether mistaken, or intentional, have destroyed businesses.

I have no science background. I do believe it is time to gather together in action, or any debate will be moot.

How can this be??? At this point in the climate development and debate are we seriously still leaving out major intrinsically important amounts of data? (Bob) is exactly right, without staunch statistical evidence, found from reliable sources with reliable methods, this debate becomes discredited, and that is a problem. Even though this data shows we might not have the correct amounts measured, we are faulting on the wrong end! This points to the direction the climate debate will be more important because we will be seeing the effects even faster now. This is a reason to have reliable data to be presented. Kev_C and Cameron Hill have it right. This could be a cataclysmic problem that does need everyone’s attention. By everyone that means the global community, not just a handful of countries can be responsible for being “clean,” but everyone must. GO CCS!