Posted on 08/14/2006 9:19:28 AM PDT by palmer
FARALLON NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Calif. On these craggy, remote islands west of San Francisco, the largest seabird colony in the contiguous United States throbs with life. Seagulls swarm so thick that visitors must yell to be heard above their cries. Pelicans glide.
But the steep decline of one bird species for the second straight year has rekindled scientists fears that global warming could be undermining the coastal food supply, threatening not just the Farallones but entire marine ecosystems.
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Climatologists describe global warming as a worldwide rise in temperatures caused by the buildup of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses thought to trap heat in the atmosphere. Predictions of global warmings effects include rising sea levels, fiercer storms, more wildfires and warmer oceans.
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(Excerpt) Read more at dailyherald.com ...
The oceans are cooling. See link in post #1.
Kind of explains all the hurricanes we've had this year.
Yep, plus unfavorable winds. But don't worry, even if we just get one big storm, it will be on the cover of Time magazine.
Accordingly I have doubled up on my firewood supply for the winter
I have been heating with wood exclusively for 24 years, and every year as I start the first fire of the season, Mrs. Candor7 laughs when I can be heard to exclaim, "You Arab b*stids at OPEC can go straight to hell!"
To add insult to injury I insist on using a 55 gallon oil drum stove.
And the local loggers love it,I having invested about $12,000 dollars in their industry over a 20 year period, unapologetically.
I am leaning in your direction, although I have an EPA certified stove. On the plus side, both of our stoves are locally made, mine in a factory in VA and yours in someone's shed in VT.
Ever look at a corn stove?
From your use of the term "logger" in your post, sound like you may be a ways from a corn field though.
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.
"Kind of explains all the hurricanes we've had this year."
See. You've got it all wrong.
Global Warming is disrupting the 'natural' flow of weather patterns and that's why there aren't any hurricanes yet.
Bush's fault!!
(liberal wacko rant off)
"And all the birds will die too."
Starting with all of the known population Canadian Geese.
I've seen that analysis and it's a valid description of the current static situation. But man's CO2 emissions are still increasing (although 1st world countries are steady). So it's the change in concentration and subsequent rise in temperature (1 degree C) that is generally agreed upon. From there however, the alarmists say that increased water vapor will increase temperature much more in a positive feedback. The problem with their theory is that it can't be analyzed statically because water vapor is unevenly distributed by the weather (winds, evaporation, rain). The climate models do not adequately model weather (among other inadequacies) and therefore don't have much if any useful predictive value.
Coincidence?
Good for you on heating with wood. Same for us!
I'm thuper-therial.
EXCELSIOR!!!
/South Park
Figure 2 of your linked document is particularly interesting, in terms of where the water temperature increases are most pronounced: in the North Atlantic -- which is counterintutive, given that Greenland's melting ice would presumably cause water temperatures to decrease.
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