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To: Steve Van Doorn
In other words, “CO2 adds to some mysterious warming trend.”

Much too gross an oversimplification. When a glacial-interglacial or interglacial-glacial transition is initiated, many factors are in place such that, when a trend is initiated, they have self-reinforcing feedbacks (positive or negative, depending on your viewpoint).

Leaving CO2 totally out of the discussion for a moment, the other main factor is the extent of continental glaciation. When the continental ice sheets start to retreat, Earth's albedo (reflectivity) decreases, allowing more solar radiation to "enter the system" and not get immediately reflected right back into space. And the exposure of land surface is one of the main ways it enters the system, because the land absorbs solar radiation and re-radiates it as longwave infrared. And we know what happens to that, right? Plus, warmer land surfaces adjacent to glaciers are likely to be wet, releasing water vapor into the atmosphere, increasing relative humidity.

So that's an example of a non-mysterious process that would augment an initiated warming trend. And I'm working in my profile to explain the CO2 feedback in detail.

83 posted on 03/26/2007 8:15:37 AM PDT by cogitator
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To: cogitator
”When a glacial-interglacial or interglacial-glacial transition is initiated,”


By what Cogitator? A mysterious warming trend is all YOU said. Read what you just said!

Put it in the terms lafroste used. What beat the meat to start the ejaculation? What does it matter if you have some sex toy to enhance your orgasm?

96 posted on 03/26/2007 9:56:36 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* ?I love you guys?)
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