Ecologists using global carbon-balance models were overestimating the rate of increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide. This discovery led these ecologists to

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Ecologists would search for evidence of other carbon dioxide sinks in the global cycle of carbon, as this would help explain why the rate of increase was overestimated. Discarding the models or switching to modeling other phenomena would not address the issue at hand, and concluding that the increase is not a serious problem would be premature without further investigation.

Ecologists Using Global Carbon-Balance Models Were Overestimating the Rate of Increase