well, at least since the *last* time they rose faster than ever before. :)
Posted on 11/25/2005 8:06:48 AM PST by yoe
Ocean and so-called greenhouse gas levels are rising faster than they have for thousands of years, according to two reports published on Thursday that are likely to fuel debate on global warming.
One study found the Earth's ocean levels have risen twice as fast in the past 150 years, signaling the impact of human activity on temperatures worldwide, researchers said in the journal Science.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...
Carbon dioxide is an atmospheric gas comprised of one carbon and two oxygen atoms. A very widely known chemical compound, it is frequently called by its formula CO2. In its solid state, it is commonly known as dry ice.
Carbon dioxide derives from multiple sources including volcanic outgassing, the combustion of organic matter and respiration processes of living aerobic organisms. It is also produced by various microorganisms from fermentation and cellular respiration. Plants utilize carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, using both the carbon and the oxygen to construct carbohydrates. In addition, plants also release oxygen to the atmosphere, which is subsequently used for respiration by heterotrophic organisms, forming a cycle. It is present in the Earth's atmosphere at a low concentration and acts as a greenhouse gas. It is a major component of the carbon cycle.
Things like land fills, millions of them, are never mentioned or the fact the earth has many more trees and farm land and cattle or just how the Sun works in the scheme of things...or the daily birth rate and all the diapers, just little things I guess that all these wise and august scientists find inconsequential – they know it is the SUV – but wait, what about all the additives to fuel to clean the air, might they just be hurting instead of helping? Oh, most likely it's Bush’s fault…………..follow the money!
Better expedite the EPA ban on volcanoes then.
Cattle Beano.
One study found the Earth's ocean levels have risen twice as fast in the past 150 years, signaling the impact of human activity on temperatures worldwide, researchers said in the journal Science.
Sea levels were rising by about 1 millimeter (0.04 inches) every year about 200 years ago and as far back as 5,000 years, geologists found from deep sediment samples from the New Jersey coastline. Since then, levels have risen by about 2 millimeters (0.08 inches) a year.
This article is about ONE study conducted at ONE location. Have they never heard of tectonic plates? Just because the sea is rising a silly millimeter more each year at NJ doesn't indicate at all this is happening worldwide.
Seems to correspond nicely to the end of the "Little Ice Age"
Yep. I love how SUVs always take the hit, too. My mother drives her Ford Expedition 50 miles a week and she's the root of all evil. Some enviro-fairy that drives his Subaru 400 miles a week is as good as gold. Makes a lot of sense, not.
(snickers and walks away from the keyboard)
" Sea levels were rising by about 1 millimeter (0.04 inches) every year about 200 years ago and as far back as 5,000 years, geologists found from deep sediment samples from the New Jersey coastline. Since then, levels have risen by about 2 millimeters (0.08 inches) a year."
So, were suppose to give up all modern stuff and live in caves because the water will be 4 inches higher in 100 years?
Good.........We all gona die......(at least I won't have to go Christmas shopping with the Mrs.)
over the past 5 years many weather experts who were once skeptics on manmade global warming have changed their tune as more data comes in
The levels of carbon dioxide have climbed from 280 parts per million two centuries ago to 380 p.p.m. today.
A previous ice-core sample had traced greenhouse gases back about 440,000 years. This new sample, from East Antarctica, goes 210,000 years further back in time. Today's still rising level of carbon dioxide already is 27% higher than its peak during all those millennia, said lead researcher Thomas Stocker of the University of Bern in Switzerland."We are out of that natural range today," he said.
Moreover, that rise is occurring at a speed that "is over a factor of a hundred faster than anything we are seeing in the natural cycles," Stocker added. "It puts the present changes in context." http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article...505/1009/NEWS07
Does anyone know if these alleged rises in sea levels affect the Great Lakes?
Mark Peplow
A remote South Atlantic island, trapped under polar ice, is blowing its top in spectacular fashion. It is the first time that researchers have had a chance to watch an Antarctic lava flow in action.
"I'd give my right arm to be down there now," says John Smellie, a volcano expert at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK. "It's very rare that we get to make direct observations of eruptions under ice sheets."
You are kidding, right?????
If I ever had one inkling (and don't think I ever did BTW) that global warming was in fact happening, this book and other references...right here on FR...that Mars, Saturn, and even Pluto were warming up also, straightned me out. Global warming is such BS that it is embarassing to know that some otherwise smart people would buy into it.
The solution is obvious. We need to go back to the good ol' days of massive pollution or we are all surely going to die.
OK: This settles it, No more breathing out. It is acceptable to breath in , but breathing out is a no-no.
Who knows? The enviros are saying that global warming caused Hurricane Katrina, so there's no telling what their other theories are.
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