Posted on 12/19/2014 7:32:52 PM PST by BenLurkin
A team of researchers revealed evidence of an unknown geochemical pathway used by the Earth to sequester water deep within, releasing small amounts through plate tectonics in a process that feeds our oceans "from within," Ohio State University reported.
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So maybe the oceans rising is not caused by global warming?
Impossible. The temperature of the earth’s core is several million degrees.
Just ask Al Gore.
God likes to keep a “big flood” option at hand.
Sequestration keeps precious resources away from people who need them. Women and minorities hit hardest.
Jules Verne, please pick up the white courtesy phone. :>}
Bingo! Thank you.
The interior of the earth has pockets of superheated steam, part of the force powering volcanic eruptions. Water is part of the structure of many minerals, integrated in the structure and providing the characteristics that distinguish a vast majority of minerals, particularly silicate minerals.
Under the heat and pressure in the earth’s core, and extending up to the “Mohorovicic Discontinuity” - also known as the Moho, there is a vast seething cauldron of ongoing chemical and physical reactions going on, but nowhere does the temperature reach “millions of degrees”. Surprising things like free hydrogen, and liquid carbon monoxide, or even molten carbon, are found in great profusion, joining and dissociating in a vast number of chemical reactions that are in a constant state of flux, until some such time as there is a vent released to the surface.
We have not the foggiest idea how to harness all this energy and the products of its expenditure.
But someone in coming centuries will discover the key, and the promise of virtually boundless “free” energy will ascertain future prosperity far beyond the artificial and unrealistic limitations of production of carbon dioxide.
Chondrite meteors, the leftovers from the “dust” from which the earth was formed, contain very significant amounts of water. Without water in the mantel, volcanism would not be possible. A lot of water is tied up in the minerals in the mantel. Water is very common in the solar system. The engine that runs the ring of fire volcanos is subducted water.
4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created,when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams[b] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
Genesis 7:11: “....the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up....”. Vast amounts of water UNDER the earth.
Just the kind of of base compounds that can produce hydrocarbons like oil, natural gas.
We have not the foggiest idea how to harness all this energy and the products of its expenditure.
I think this guy did.
Kind of dispels the Paul Ehrlich theory by a long shot.
Who is that a picture of?
It also dispels the theory that the Earth will lose its oceans in a billion years due to the breakup of water vapor via UV exposure, slowly breaking H2O into oxygen and hydrogen before the hydrogen is lost to the solar wind.
That is Edward Leedskalnin. Few recognize the name or face, but the background is more familiar to the public.
CORAL CASTLE. Have you heard of it ?
When I was about ten years old, Dad thrilled me with stories of Project Mohole. “Journey to the Center of the Earth” had come out a couple years earlier and exploration of the crust and the Mohorovicic Discontinuity was a pretty big thing. I haven’t thought about Mohole in decades!
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