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How Did Earth Avoid Runaway Global Warming In The Past?
Science 2.0 (Join the Revolution) ^ | June 11, 2014 21:31 GMT | News Staff

Posted on 06/11/2014 3:15:09 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists

There have been times in our geological history when CO2 levels were 10X what they are today, yet warming was only slightly higher.

Unlike what you often read in simplistic media accounts, there are a lot of variables in climate and weather and temperature. It takes a lot of things going wrong to turn Earth into Venus and we have never come close.

At the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference in Sacramento, geochemists discussed one such period, but they say we just got lucky - a vast mountain range formed in the middle of the ancient supercontinent, Pangea.

Around 300 million years ago, plate tectonics caused the continents to aggregate into a giant supercontinent. The sheer size of the continent meant that much of the land surface was far from the sea, and so the continent became increasingly arid due to lack of humidity. This aridity meant that rock weathering was reduced; normally, a reduction in rock weathering means that CO2 levels rise, yet in spite of this CO2 levels – which had been falling prior to the mountain formation- continued to drop, eventually undergoing the most significant drop in atmospheric CO2 of the last 500 million years. This phenomenon has remained unexplained - and still is, but a group of French scientists from the CNRS in Toulouse have come up with a conjecture based on a model which seeks to explain this contradiction.

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Finally, a REAL, balanced article discussing the global warming "kill switch" Earth has pressed in its past.

Looking forward to additional info from this level-headed site.

1 posted on 06/11/2014 3:15:09 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Easy, there wern’t any liberals to make up lies about it.

Mike


2 posted on 06/11/2014 3:19:22 PM PDT by doublecansiter (without cartridge, load in nine times, LOAD!)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Prehistoric taxes?


3 posted on 06/11/2014 3:19:22 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Chicken little scenarios only seem to occur when Democrats are elected, or at least allowed to speak in public. Solution: remove vocal cords and voting rights from all Democrats and all crises will be averted.


4 posted on 06/11/2014 3:21:12 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: freedumb2003

Oooga booga. Noooga mooga nooga taxoooga.


5 posted on 06/11/2014 3:21:47 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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Boy, bookmarking this one!


6 posted on 06/11/2014 3:21:56 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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President Fintstone's Yabba Dabba Doo Cap-N-Trade policies is what fixed it.
7 posted on 06/11/2014 3:28:02 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: Up Yours Marxists

8 posted on 06/11/2014 3:29:29 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

I have a couple of coworkers who are way convinced about all this AGW silliness. One has friends in Florida who swear they are losing their front yard to the rising ocean. The other made a deal with me that if I would watch a recent episode of Cosmos with that Tyson dude, he’d listen to an hour of Rush.

I watched the show, nothing but pretty CGI stuff as far as I can tell. And 10-year-old suppositions about CO2 levels and heating and other crap. My bud just happened to listen to Limbaugh today when El Rushbo was on a tear about the Cantor race in VA. Where my bud lives! He weren’t too happy about that “Tea Bagger taking over Cantor’s seat” so I just had to laugh.


9 posted on 06/11/2014 3:33:36 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Those who "try" often fail, those who DO often succeed.)
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Kind of wonder what caused the last ice age and then what ended it.


10 posted on 06/11/2014 3:37:39 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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How Did Earth Avoid Runaway Global Warming In The Past?

The Earth didn't have a consensus of scientists claiming, based on fake data, that global warming is a crisis situation that scientists can correct -- through grant money for plans and studies.


11 posted on 06/11/2014 3:41:00 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Up Yours Marxists

btt


12 posted on 06/11/2014 3:42:39 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: freedumb2003

Ahhhhh!

Dinosaurs didn’t fart as much as cows of today fart.


13 posted on 06/11/2014 3:42:40 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Al Gore wasn’t born yet!


14 posted on 06/11/2014 3:42:50 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Bookmark


15 posted on 06/11/2014 3:54:29 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: freedumb2003

I love that Looney Tunes short. I was a senior in High School when that one came out. Was shown before “Sunset Boulevard” down at the ole dime showing in the downtown WB Theater in Denver.

Those were great times.


16 posted on 06/11/2014 4:04:43 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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>>I love that Looney Tunes short. <<

It is on the banned list like so many great WB cartoons.


17 posted on 06/11/2014 4:08:29 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
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Typical communist clap crap. Ban our heritage.

I love Inky. Free Inky. Brother, could you spare a hair bone?


18 posted on 06/11/2014 4:14:40 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
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1) Heat trapping gasses increase...
2) Earth warms
3) Ocean evaporation increases
4) Precipitation increase cooling Earth and bringing arid desert back into bloom
5) Foliage growth increases consuming more CO2
6) Earth cools
7) Rinse and repeat, as neccessary..


19 posted on 06/11/2014 4:27:16 PM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot
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To: Up Yours Marxists

“they say we just got lucky” Well, I don’t believe in luck and God has His hand in every square inch of this planet He created just for us.

I do not understand how rock weathering reduces CO2 but if rock turns to dirt (by the way, the Appalachians are awesome and love the angle of the layers seen from highway construction) then the plants would grow and use up the CO2?


20 posted on 06/11/2014 4:38:26 PM PDT by huldah1776
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