Posted on 07/21/2023 6:14:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Although it was arguably warmer 1,000 years ago than it is now, “Greenland” was named as a smart real estate marketing device to attract settlement by the Danes. Outside of a narrow strip of land on the southern coast (and subject to warming by the Gulf Stream), there wasn’t a lot of “green” in Greenland. Still, the Canadian Maritime Provinces were warm enough to promote the cultivation of grapes and thus called Vineland by Eric and his buddies.
Land masses rise and fall like the tides only the time scales are different.
Holland’s land mass keeps falling because they keep pumping the water behind the sea wall. It has nothing to do with Global Warming.
Many cities of ancient history are now below sea level because the land mass has fallen. They have been below sea level for a thousand or more years. Long before the Industrial Revolution.
Man kind has much less influence on nature than the Alarmist would suggest.
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Where I live in southern Maryland at one time there was a glacier two miles thick. At another time we had 200-300 feet of ocean above us.
According to NASA, earth's atmosphere weighs 5.1e+18 kg (= 1.124358e+19 pounds = 5.62179×10^15 US tons)
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.html
Call it 11.2 quintillion pounds (avdp) or 5.6 quadrillion tons (US)
Specific heat of air is 1006 Joules per kilogram of air per degree centigrade.
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/air-specific-heat-capacity-d_705.html
Based on the atmosphere's known mass, and the known specific heat of air, it would take (5.1e+18 x 1006 =) 5.712×10^21 Joules to raise the temperature of earth's atmosphere by a single degree C.
The Little Boy atom bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima exploded with a force of about 15 kt. A thousand tons of TNT will release about 4.184e+9 Joules so 15 of them comes to 62.76e+9J. Divide that into the 5.712e+21 Joules and you get 91,013,384,321 -- 91 billion -- Little Boy atom bombs. That's what you'd need to heat the atmosphere by 1 °C.
Wikipedia says we've detonated a total of 2,121 nuclear weapons representing a combined yield of 540,849 kilotons. That's equal to about 36,000 Little Boy bombs. Which means we're about 90,999,964,000 Little Boys short of raising the planet's atmosphere's temperature by 1 °C.
And that's ASS-u-ME-ing 100% of the energy of explosion is converted to heat, so obviously even 91 billion is well short of the mark.
He did this routine over 30 years ago.
The earth is still here.
George Carlin - Saving the Planet 1992
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
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