Note: this topic is from 7/08/2003. Thanks PeaceBeWithYou. Another in our long intermittent series of re-pings / blasts from the past.
Posted on 07/08/2003 3:48:19 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou
Note: this topic is from 7/08/2003. Thanks PeaceBeWithYou. Another in our long intermittent series of re-pings / blasts from the past.
The thing that especially worries me is how the COC2 is acidifying the Ocean. I saw a piece the other day explaining that bedrock coral near Florida has dissolved as much in 6 years as had previously been predicted to happen in 40 years.
If CO@ levels are following temperature changes, then that tends to strengthen the possibility that bolide strikes and supervolcanoes may be causing some of this.
I found this quote at another FR post, and perhaps it explains the LAG in appearance of extra CO2 after Antarctic deglacial warming.
“In fact, deep ocean circulation slowed down to such an extent that the heavy, saline water mass below a depth of 2000 metres was not in contact with the surface for almost 3000 years. “During this time, so much bound carbon in the form of animal and algae remains trickled down from the more intermixed sea surface into the deep water layer that we were able to identify it as the major carbon reservoir that we have looked for so intensively,” says Thomas Ronge. The data also showed that the already old age of the water masses was artificially increased from about 3000 to 8000 years as a result of the injected volcanic carbon.”
Have fun playing with the implications of this info. Now I will go find the link to add as my next comment.
Here is the link for my previous comment.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3430348/posts
The article also points out that as the stored CO2 rises to the surface, the warming also affects wind patterns and warming is accelerated even more.
Wonderful information to transfer to my research file. Thanks for all you do.
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