PERSPECTIVES: RISING CO2 LEVELS - THE REASON WHY ~~The earth has a cycle

Wednesday on the Web ^ | February 23, 2004 | Phil Brennan

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

Okay, fine, but what to do?

Certainly not nothing. We know that the climate is changing. How do we adapt asap and with minimal cost.

We cannot let entire populations perish. It is our responsibility to not allow this. So what do to prepare? According to this, the answer is not to stop buring oil, but at least to prepare for the coming changes.

[traderrob6]

Can't fight mother nature...my suggestion, stock up on long underwear

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Referenced book:

Not by Fire but by Ice: Discover What Killed the Dinosaurs...and Why It Could Soon Kill Us

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The coming of the next ice age, June 30, 2002

Reviewer:

Natalie Kilpatrick (Omaha, NE United States) - See all my reviews

After hearing an interview with Robert Felix on a radio show, I desperately wanted this book, but for some reason I just never ordered it. Well, after I finally did, I'm not disappointed in what I read.

Whether you believe that the next ice age is coming or not; and whether you believe that the dinosaurs, mammoths, etc. were wiped out by an ice age or not; there's more to this book than just that.

Mr. Felix goes into great details to explain what scientists theorize makes an ice age happens. He mainly describes polar-magnetic reversals (where the north and south poles flip); nuclear explosions on the sun, earth, and miles above the earth (those creating the Aurora Borealis); earthquakes and earthquake lightes; sudden climatic changes; etc.

The book also tells us how an instantaneous ice age can occur (feet upon feet of snow in hours). Notes are made about when 5 inches of rain falls that can actually add up to 50 inches of snow. He goes on and on about places that have received this much rain in such short periods of time, going on that it can happen with snow, not just rain. The only problem I have with this theory is that when it rains so much, its usually in an isolated area, not hemisphere-wide like he's trying to suggest.

All in all, I think it makes for one hell of a book. It's definitely one that I'm going to keep for years and years to come! But, when it starts snowing... Be afraid. Be very afraid.

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Corrected internal story link:

IceAgeNow.com

[snarks_when_bored]

Mae West (ice age re-incarnation):  "Is that an icicle in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?"

[joshhiggins]

"...So what do to prepare? According to this, the answer is not to stop buring oil, but at least to prepare for the coming changes..."
First we put up fence to keep out all the canadians.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I am in Southern California, and you may have heard of our weather here, it has been one for the records...we actually have a rain gauge location in the San Gabriel mountains that thus far in this rainy season (three major storms ) has recorded 92 inches, there could be an error, but others in the area show 30, 40 and 50 inches.

See this:

See the amazing precip amount to date for the rain season starting 10-01-2004.

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Locale of the rain gauge:

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks!

[Cold Heat]

Font problems?

[Cold Heat]

First we put up fence to keep out all the Canadians.

Yeah, good idea.

The Mexicans are shorter and smaller, and therefore exhale less CO2.:-)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

He used Big

on his web site, and it is really Big here, would have been a massive rework of the HTML (Not an HTML expert ) to get it scaled down .

[Cold Heat]

Ahhh! I see,,,,,

Thanks for the explanation.

[Cold Heat]

I have a thirteen inch screen........LOL!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There is probably some Block command to override , but I don't know how.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

If you are using Firefox you can reduce the size ...course the
small print gets really small!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Geology News
AMORE learns to love the Gakkel Ridge November 29, 2001

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Contrary to expectations, the Gakkel Ridge (Arctic Ocean) the world's slowest spreading mid-ocean ridge, may be very exciting indeed

Moreover its surprisingly active volcanism could include a field of undersea vents, ("black smokers") which could in turn support previously unknown species of marine life, reporters have been told.

The findings were among a range of discoveries made by researchers aboard the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy, an icebreaker equipped for science, and a companion German research vessel, the Polarstern, in late August, early in a nine-week cruise to the Gakkel Ridge, Earth's least volcanically active mid-ocean ridge. 

"We accomplished easily a factor of two more than we planned" said Peter Michael, of the University of Tulsa, the U.S. chief scientist on the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge Expedition (AMORE). Michael and other AMORE researchers discussed their findings at a news conference yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. 

Among other important milestones from the cruise, scientists discovered an as yet unexplained "discontinuity" of volcanic activity along the Gakkel Ridge. Because the southern end of the ridge is spreading relatively quickly and the northern end extremely slowly, the researchers expected volcanic activity to gradually die out as they sailed north. Instead, there were irregular pockets of activity as the cruise moved northwards. 

They said they were also pleased to discover that they were able to map the ridge in great detail from the Healy because the vessel was much quieter when breaking ice than expected. 

"Our maps show that this ridge is tectonically very different than other ridges, the rift valley is close to a mile deeper with many enormous long-lived faults", explained Henry Dick, an expedition co-chief scientist from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. "This likely accounts for why so many hydrothermal plumes were found here." 

Prior to the AMORE cruise most scientists expected little recent volcanic activity and scant evidence for hydrothermal vents, the deep-sea hot springs that host oases of life on the deep seafloor. Instead, sampling sites revealed abundant fresh lava and multiple signs of hydrothermal activity. 

Most surprisingly, a dredge team, led by Jeffrey Standish, a graduate student at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, recovered fresh sulphides that apparently are part of "black smoker" chimneys, the most striking manifestation of hydrothermal activity. The find was verified by a camera and sensor package lowered to the seafloor from the Polarstern that showed intact sulphide chimneys and recorded warm water vents. The expedition proposed the name "Aurora" for the vent field

"We found more hydrothermal activity on this cruise than in 20 years of exploration on the mid-Atlantic Ridge" said Charles Langmuir, co-chief scientist on Healy from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) at Columbia University. 

While the heated water from the hydrothermal vents does not significantly affect ocean temperatures, the vents have attracted the attention of both biologists and geologists. Hydrothermal vents on mid-ocean ridges in the world's oceans provide chemical energy that supports exotic life forms and large ecosystems far removed from the Earth's sunlit surface, where photosynthesis forms the base of the food chain. "Our discovery of these signals clearly show that hydrothermal vents similar to those present on faster spreading mid-ocean ridges are present in abundance here, too" said AMORE researcher Henrietta Edmonds of the University of Texas. 

AMORE mapped and sampled the Gakkel Ridge which, extends 1100 miles from north of Greenland to Siberia, all of it beneath the Arctic ice cap. The ridge is the deepest and most remote portion of the global mid-ocean ridge system, where new ocean crust is continuously created as seafloor spreading takes place through volcanic activity. Many theories about seafloor spreading can be tested only on a slow-spreading ridge like the Gakkel. Geologists, oceanographers and biologists on both ships recovered numerous samples of rocks, mud, water as well as organisms from the seafloor that they will analyze in their labs. 

The Arctic Ocean's isolation from major ocean basins has led scientists to debate whether ecosystems on Gakkel Ridge would more resemble those from the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans, or whether they would have evolved separately. "These exciting discoveries on Gakkel Ridge pave the way for future expeditions that will map the vents and may discover completely new organisms" Michael said. 

The AMORE research was the first full science expedition for HEALY after an extensive four-month program of icebreaking and science equipment testing in the Arctic last year. 

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[Cold Heat]

I have no clue either, how to adjust it.

I usually have multiple windows open,and when I clicked the thread, it come up with about three or four words per line and about forty feet long! ROFL!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Do you use the Firefox browser?

[theFIRMbss]

>Listen up. This is very important