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To: agooga
"This seems like a stealthy move to lend more credance to current global warming by saying that GW was real back then when we had virtually zero industrialization-- so IT MUST BE REAL now that we have so much."

Not really. Industrialization results in mostly increases in CO2. The main greenhouse gas in the "early global warming" theory is methane, which is a far more powerful "warming" gas than CO2.

16 posted on 03/06/2005 3:33:53 PM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel)
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To: Wonder Warthog

Current atmospheric CH4 accounts for 25% of current warming enhancement.

I'm going to make a wild guess and say that we are still creating more CH4 today (with a population of 5 billion +) than we were 8,000 years ago with a total population of between 5 and 10 million.

The amount of land diverted to agricultural use from roughly 8000 BC to 1000 AD must be tiny by today's standards. I would wager that the landfills in the US alone produce more CH4 than all human activities of the newly agrarian world.

If our total current methane/greenhouse enhancement accounts for about a quarter of one degree celsius, than we must assume that the simple and primitive agricultural doings of about 10 million people account for a methane output 8 times greater than of today.

Yes-- methane is a more potent greenhouse gas, but the numbers don't pass the smell test, so to speak. I want cooroboration.

Big Time.


28 posted on 03/06/2005 5:40:22 PM PST by agooga
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