Posted on 10/01/2015 11:32:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
According to a study by the Institute of Catalysis and Environment in Lyon (IRCELYON, CNRS / University Lyon 1) and the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS), the oceans are producing unexpectedly large quantities of isoprene – a volatile organic compound (VOC) – which is known to have a cooling effect on climate.
Isoprene is a gas that is formed by both the vegetation and the oceans. It is very important for the climate because this gas can form particles that can become clouds and then later affect temperature and precipitation. Previously it was assumed that isoprene is primarily caused by biological processes from plankton in the sea water. The atmospheric chemists from France and Germany, however, could now show that isoprene could also be formed without biological sources in surface film of the oceans by sunlight and so explain the large discrepancy between field measurements and models. The new identified photochemical reaction is therefore important to improve the climate models.
The oceans not only take up heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, they are also sources of various gaseous compounds, thereby affecting the global climate. A key role is played by the so-called surface microlayer (SML), especially at low wind speed. In these few micrometers thin layer different organic substances such as dissolved organic matter, fat and amino acids, proteins, lipids are accumulating as well as trace metals, dust and microorganisms.
Though the cooling effects of isoprene are well known, what is new is the discovery that the oceans are producing much more of it than has been accounted for in the alarmists’ climate models. (H/T Lewis Page; The Register)
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James is a DOUBTER and should be arrested for even thinking that warmunist algore’s predictions are false. Be gone denier. LOL! Wonder if any of these asshats ever tried to grow crops in the arctic. Somewhat easier when it’s ‘warmish’.
The whole dang system is on auto-pilot.
The science is settled, no need to look at data.
Looks like a school and/or program about to be shut down due to “budget constraints”. To much at stake here.
Next up: Global cooling deniers.
Not a chance; too much money, power and Marxism at stake.
To be quickly shoved down the memory hole by the communist media.
What’s the diff? Zero has already solved the Glowbull Warming problem by ensuring nuclear winter in our lifetime.
I wish “progressives” were as negative and defeatist as FR conservatives. Try lighting a few candles rather than cursing the darkness. Do something to get this news out. Don’t whine about the media. be the media.
Scupper: Nautical - An opening in the side of a ship at deck level to allow water to run off.
Scuttle: Scuttling is the act of deliberately sinking a ship by allowing water to flow into the hull.
They eventually split up. One was named Daniloff. I think the pretty girl on the right was named Tiffany or something like that.
Had a nice sound.
On an even sadder note, The Captain and Tenille have split up after 40 some years of marriage. Tony Tenille was cute as could be. Daryl Dragon had a neat name and hat.
I miss the old days. Now we are stuck with Twerky Turkey Milley Cyrus, she of no class, all ass, and damned little talent.
No problem, just adjust some of the parameters of the models. It’s done all the time.
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