Even if you could tell who nudged an Adirondack chair a millimeter farther from the abyss, arguing about which president is the better chair - shuffler is really missing the sinking ship. (cato.org)
Even the Southern Ocean is a good missing sink candidate — as research suggests waters may have stagnated there too, and temperature conditions around Antarctica were at times remarkably mild when blizzards roamed the north. (bitsofscience.org)
As long as 1/3 of all emissions go unaccounted (see the infamous «carbon missing sink»), there is no basis to state as precise numbers as 5 % which seems to be plucked out of the air. (blogs.nature.com)