Carbon Cycles Miscalculated?

In a recent blog post on Mongabay.com, a site that promotes community awareness on environmental news, it was presented that a paper published by Science has addressed the issue that previous means of measuring the planets overall carbon cycle emissions and absorptions may not be up to snuff.  It has been suggested by the paper that natural emissions of methane and carbon dioxide from streams, lakes, and rivers are not even  accounted for in the previous measurements of carbon cycle totals.  This potentially represents a "major accounting error," supposedly on the line of 1.4 billion metric tons, yikes.  Still, these numbers are estimates.  They remain estimates because we apparently haven't had the proper means to measure, or think to measure, such volumes.  The paper urges more precise measurements because conversation of conservation and policy making highly depend on these figures.  Hmmm... yes, important stuff.

The blog post was informative, yet did not take a stance on the issue, it was merely written to inform the public.  For a reaction I explored the comments.  Pleasantly I found not outrage but comments that were more of a problem solving mentality.  Though the mentality did not include any formal answers, it is nice to see the support for moving forward with the issue at hand.  The link to the blog can be found here. and the comments. I did take the chance to comment, it awaits the approval from the site.  If it does not make it on, I will post it... but it was appropriate and really has no reason not to make it....