Posted on 10/02/2016 7:22:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Hydropower has always been touted as a clean source of generating electricity, despite of the facts that it displaces thousands of people from their natural abodes, destroys their lives and livelihoods and submerges huge amounts of lands and forests.
Now, a new study claims that it is also accelerating global warming. […]
The study is done by Washington State University the has found that during times of drawdown — a period in which the water level behind a dam is rapidly lowered — temperate reservoirs can produce up 20 times more methane than normal. …
(Excerpt) Read more at americanbazaaronline.com ...
The insanity of the mental disease known as “liberalism” raises it’s nasty, evil, ugly head every single day.
I think that they should call themselves “American Bizarre Online”. :=)
Good Lord, these people are certifiable!
Oh, God, here we go again. If it is not man-made global warming, it is earthquakes caused by fracking or now this crap. These filthy scam artists are what runs academia and their lying pursuit of grants.
That is why they are all DemocRATs.
He wants to tear it down.
Wrong. The most important players on the greenhouse stage are water vapor and clouds.
Carbon dioxide has been increased to about 0.038% of the atmosphere (possibly from about 0.028% pre-Industrial Revolution) while water in its various forms ranges from 0% to 4% of the atmosphere and its properties vary by what form it is in and even at what altitude it is found in the atmosphere.
In simple terms the bulk of Earth's greenhouse effect is due to water vapor by virtue of its abundance. Water accounts for about 90% of the Earth's greenhouse effect -- perhaps 70% is due to water vapor and about 20% due to clouds (mostly water droplets), some estimates put water as high as 95% of Earth's total tropospheric greenhouse effect (e.g., Freidenreich and Ramaswamy, 'Solar Radiation Absorption by Carbon Dioxide, Overlap with Water, and a Parameterization for General Circulation Models,' Journal of Geophysical Research 98 (1993):7255-7264).
The remaining portion comes from carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, ozone and miscellaneous other 'minor greenhouse gases.' As an example of the relative importance of water it should be noted that changes in the relative humidity on the order of 1.3-4% are equivalent to the effect of doubling CO2.
http://web.archive.org/web/20100317023946/http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse
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Water Vapor Rules the Greenhouse System
Water vapor constitutes Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse effect (4). Interestingly, many 'facts and figures' regarding global warming completely ignore the powerful effects of water vapor in the greenhouse system, carelessly (perhaps, deliberately) overstating human impacts as much as 20-fold.
Water vapor is 99.999% of natural origin. Other atmospheric greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and miscellaneous other gases (CFC's, etc.), are also mostly of natural origin (except for the latter, which is mostly anthropogenic).
Human activities contribute slightly to greenhouse gas concentrations through farming, manufacturing, power generation, and transportation. However, these emissions are so dwarfed in comparison to emissions from natural sources we can do nothing about, that even the most costly efforts to limit human emissions would have a very small-- perhaps undetectable-- effect on global climate.
http://web.archive.org/web/20110308203927/http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
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Water Vapor Confirmed As Major Player In Climate Change
ScienceDaily (Nov. 18, 2008) -- Water vapor is known to be Earth's most abundant greenhouse gas, but the extent of its contribution to global warming has been debated. Using recent NASA satellite data, researchers have estimated more precisely than ever the heat-trapping effect of water in the air, validating the role of the gas as a critical component of climate change.
Back to the agenda; all humans must be disappeared, we’re not a “natural” part of Mother Earth. Only the elite progressives are to remain along with a cadre of slaves to support their lavish lifestyles.
That’s excellent.
Good Grief! These idiot liberals should seek help for their mental problems.
These people sit around, and dream up this stuff. Probably get paid well, or credits, or something to do so by people with access to a government bank account.
And we wonder where billions of dollars disappeared.
This is more bent science because they didn’t consider the 3rd purpose of dams (irrigation, power and flood control).
All rivers are prone to flooding. Did they consider the methane release from destroyed vegetation and animals from regular uncontrolled flooding. Of course not.
I’m betting it would be a wash, only with dams you would at least get the economic benefits of irrigation, power and flood control. WSU is seriously in the grips of agenda driven science.
If you read the source material, this garbage is aimed at preventing developing countries from building dams.
Not to worry, put a solar superfarm next to the reservoir lake and all the birds that poo in the lake will fry. Fish and turtles might be a bit of a problem, tho, since they don’t fly. Of course that superfarm might also raise global warming but it’s solar so it’s ok.... /s
The obvious solution is for liberals to kill themselves to balance the methane emissions.
I work along the lakes and throughout the varying terrain of the southeast and inter-mountain west. The amount of methane that a few lakes produce, in spite of the agenda of the leftist schools, pales in comparison to the methane rich environments of the ebb and flow and immense swamp lands. From the ephemeral to the year round streams and wet lands there is no meaningful way to compare the output of a few lakes whose output of methane would not change at all due to the level of water in it. The methane rises anyways. Once the land is exposed it just empties itself of the said methane faster (maybe 20 times) than if the water had not receded. Even my simple mind is all over this one. Alas, look at the morons our institutions of altered learning produce.
Then they want us to die ...
1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. - The Georgia Guidestones
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