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Ancient Climate Studies Suggest Earth On Fast Track To Global Warming
Terra Daily ^
| February 17, 2006
| Staff Writers
Posted on 02/17/2006 8:54:21 AM PST by cogitator
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To: Omedalus
Carbon dioxide is continuously removed from the atmosphere by plants, which use it to form sugars to store energy from sunlight. More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means more plant biomass, which consumes more carbon dioxide, which makes less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.And what exactly do animals do in this system?
To: cogitator
No one considers that as the CO2 level increases and as temperature increases then so too does the photosynthetic efficiency of plants.
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02/17/2006 9:09:45 AM PST
by
Ouderkirk
(Funny how death and destruction seems to happen wherever Muslims gather...)
To: cogitator
Human activities are releasing greenhouse gases more than 30 times faster than the rate of emissions that triggered a period of extreme global warming in the Earth's past, according to an expert on ancient climates.So scientists have determined that past climate change is entirely a function of emissions. Sounds like a emission to me....
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02/17/2006 9:10:00 AM PST
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Ford4000
To: dirtboy
But this fails to answer the critical question - was the release the cause of the warming? Or an effect of the warming?In the case of the PETM, the release was, with near certainty, the cause of the warming. The PETM is a very interesting climate "incident" -- I've never been able to find a discussion of what triggered the release. But the temperature increase clearly lags the increasing carbon dioxide and methane concentrations in the atmosphere.
I can find links for you, or you can Google for them yourself. Goddard Institute of Space Studies had an article about "ocean burps" that I've posted here a few times.
To: cogitator
We're Doomed!
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02/17/2006 9:13:53 AM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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To: lexington minuteman 1775
Is it time to start running around in circles and screaming "we are doomed, we are doomed"?
To: antceecee
... by professor at socialist university of Santa Cruz.
The credibility of liberal professors at liberal leaning universities is comparable to the credibility of some of our major newspapers, such as the NY Times and Washington Post. In other words, virtually no credibility.
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posted on
02/17/2006 9:14:21 AM PST
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adorno
To: worldclass
"State of Fear" by Crichton ...I just read it and I agree; it's awesome.
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posted on
02/17/2006 9:14:33 AM PST
by
Marauder
(The height of hypocrisy: Congress critters upset because someone lied to them.)
To: cogitator
The greeny's PR houses are cranking out this crap all this week in tune with the first anniversary of the so-called implementation of the so-called Kyoto Accords that nobody is honoring.
To: Ford4000
according to an expert on ancient climatesGeee whizzzz....I didn't know that we had "climatologists" 30,ooo years ago. You learn something new every day!
If the Democrats ever get back into control, I'm sure they'll fix it though. (/sarc.)
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02/17/2006 9:16:22 AM PST
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
(M.S.M. CREED: "Truth has no substance until we give it permission!")
To: cogitator
Well, if the scientists say it, then I have to accept it. Although I'll no doubt be ridiculed, I do not have the independent training to argue the findings or the math or the models. (In other words, I have the wrong graduate degree to talk to scientists.)
Everyone says global warming is a fact, especially scientists. People who are skeptical about it are derided as ignorant. So I'm sticking with the scientists on this one. Global warming is a fact, people. We need to do everything the scientists tell us to do in order to save our planet. We need to cut out on emissions that cause greenhouse gases... or whatever.
To: adorno
I think the professor was referring to the dinosaur emissions, otherwise known as farts, 55 million years ago. Weren't no dinosaurs around 55 MYA.
To: farlander
In yet other news, studies of political campaigns suggest Democratic Party and liberalism on fast track to nowhere.
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posted on
02/17/2006 9:18:25 AM PST
by
RockinRight
(Attention RNC...we're the party of Reagan, not FDR...)
To: Mike Darancette
Weren't no dinosaurs around 55 MYA.
Of course not! Not after they all died off from all that global warming caused by all of their own emissions a few million years earlier. Yeesh!
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posted on
02/17/2006 9:30:44 AM PST
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adorno
To: cogitator
Remind me to keep my surf board waxed.
To: Mike Darancette
Weren't no dinosaurs around 55 MYA.
Of course not! Not after they all died off from all that global warming caused by all of their own emissions a few million years earlier. Yeesh!
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02/17/2006 9:30:47 AM PST
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adorno
To: cogitator
Having a fat resume does not make one immune from political leanings. I have found that one's political orientation will often allow the data to be viewed in a way that supports that orientation - or even worse, the researcher misinterpets the data willfully for the sake of politics. Though, I'm not saying this researcher has done the latter. Just that Santa Cruz is notoriously liberal.
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posted on
02/17/2006 9:31:47 AM PST
by
aligncare
(Watergate killed journalism)
To: worldclass
Let's just kill all the humans and solve the problem..Read Tom Clancy's 'Rainbow Six'.
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02/17/2006 9:31:52 AM PST
by
Vinnie
To: darkwing104
I am hoping my beach house on the fog shrouded San Francisco coast will soon feel like Hawaii.
To: aligncare
.. for the sake of politics.
And quite ofter, for the sake of government grants to the universitites for research..
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posted on
02/17/2006 9:36:52 AM PST
by
adorno
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