Meltdown! The world is feeling the heat of global warming. (Please help me!)

Time for Kids ^ | January 12, 2007 | None listed

[drellberg]

"In 15 years, scientists say, the snows of Kilimanjaro will simply melt away. ... Kilimanjaro is not the only place that is threatened. Glaciers and polar ice are melting. Coral reefs are dying as the seas get too warm. Lakes and rivers in colder climates are freezing later and thawing earlier each year, disrupting the life cycles of native plants and animals. What is causing this breakdown in nature?

[CedarDave]

This thread has one of the best list of references for the global warming fraud that I have seen. Interesting enough, another fraud out there related to this is the ethanol fraud, including information that burning ethanol in cars, in addition to driving up the price of corn and other grains and contributing to overpumping of groundwater where irrigation is needed, actually produces more CO2 than burning straight gasoline!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1764650/posts?page=12#12

And furthermore, recent MIT research has concluded "that traveling a kilometer using corn ethanol does indeed consume more energy than traveling the same distance using gasoline"!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765357/posts

Keyword: Ethanol

[jwalsh07]

There is more to it then that when 80 to 90% of the heat on Earth is from the Earth its self. The earth is basically a lava ball with a thin crust.

You're off by about 99.6%. The Sun contributes almost all of the Earths heat, the heat from the core is negligible.

[Steve Van Doorn]

This is easy to figure out the Crust temperature is around +15 deg C. Space Temperature is about -270 deg C. That means we get a +285 deg C from the earth.

[kinoxi]

Check your facts. If you've got a link I would love to see it.

[jwalsh07]

No it doesn't. You're right abouth the Earths temperature. The avg surface temp of Earth is about 14C or 287 Kelvins or an energy output of about 385 watts per square meter. The input energy from the Sun is about 350 watts per square meter. Doesn't leave much for the Earths core to do, some might say just enough though.

[Not A Snowbird]

I almost slipped on black ice this morning in LOS ANGELES!!!!!!!

Send some of that snow and ice my way, please. I'm sitting here in DC with my window open, enjoying a balmy 60+ degrees. You have my weather and I have yours.

[sam I am]

It will be 9 here tonight. I live in California.

[Inyo-Mono]

It will be 9 here tonight. I live in California.

And just a few miles away from me, it was 27 degrees below zero this morning at the Cal-Trans Crestview maintenance station on Highway 395 in California.

[Calvin Locke]

Pity it didn't hit -40.

The moisture content of air, for all practical purposes, is zero. Supposedly, you can watch your breath freeze to a "powder", and fall to the ground.

That would be interesting to experience. Once would probably be enough for most people, including me.

[13Sisters76]

Wow- that's a beautiful pic...I do miss it sometimes...

[Steve Van Doorn]

Your figures are about right but where is the rest of the heat come from? Remember space is cold.

Every time that you go down a 1.6 km in to the earth, the temperature increases by 22 deg C.

Earths crust is only 30 to 110 Km to the top of the Earth's mantel which is over 1000 deg C.

[13Sisters76]

I loved this book, but the BEST part about it was- even though fiction-the extensive sources he then listed in the back.

[Steve Van Doorn]

If i am off i am only off by a little. i can not find a good link on it.

[13Sisters76]

I have read that the increase in CO2 levels relate to the increase in forested lands in the northern hemisphere, which is, funnily enough, also where the most developed nations are located. The research continues...

[kinoxi]

I think your off by quite a bit. The earth does not generate that much heat, that's why we have seasons.

[Scutter]

Bookmark for later.

[sionnsar]

Wow- that's a beautiful pic...I do miss it sometimes...

Me too. We get just a bit too little of it here -- people don't know how to drive in it, the counties & cities don't invest enough to quickly clear the roads, and... I like to see it, and it certainly brightens our dark, gloomy Seattle winters.

But it usually means we're also going to lose electricity for a time.

[Steve Van Doorn]

“that's why we have seasons.”

Seasons are a fluctuation of the sun which is only a small change.

Heat from the Earth's mantel gives us heat from -270 deg C to nearly 15 deg C and that is constant that we know of with some fluctuations.

http://www.geophysics.harvard.edu/geodyn/nasa_report/NASA_Final_Report.html

[kinoxi]

Your link doesn't work. Your numbers don't either. The earth is warmed by the Sun. Put your bare feet in the ground if you don't believe me, or better yet educate yourself.

[M0sby]

"I loved this book, but the BEST part about it was- even though fiction-the extensive sources he then listed in the back."

OH I TOTALLY AGREE!
I usually just trade my paperback books in for new books...
THIS ONE I AM KEEPING!
Funny..if you google the book..there are a ZILLION people discrediting Crichton because he is not a scientist..I read a BUNCH of it and never saw anyone discredit the SCIENTIFIC DATA that he used though!
:-)

Sherry