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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/15/2007 1:54:11 AM   
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ORIGINAL: kdsub

I agree time for us to stop being the world policeman… let them kill each other I don’t care… see how long before Europe begs us for protection… see how they like paying for an army and navy… while we rebuild out own infrastructure.

Love to see our new transportation system and better health care for Americans… take better care of our poor...  The things we can’t do because we have to keep and pay for a massive standing Army to protect the world from themselves.

Then we can point fingers at the broke Imperialistic United Europe and call them bullies and dictators.

Butch


You don't pay for a standing army to protect the world, you pay for it to protect American companies while plundering the world. The USA is doing excactly the same thing as the European powers did in their imperial days. The problem Americans have and why they can't understand why the world has a problem with them is because Americans don't accept they are an imperial nation while to the rest of the world that is exactly what they are.

As for Europeans begging for American protection, don't count on it. Those Europeans that are, are people in power and with money and have something personally to gain by licking Americas arse and America has something to gain by pretending they are protecting Europeans. It all comes down to money in the pockets of the rich. If you don't understand that then you are thick and deserve the sort of healthcare your caring government dumps on you.


I agree.

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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/15/2007 9:02:04 AM   
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DomKen: Also saying that the atmosphere has held more CO2 is not an answer to how much human generated CO2 is excess.

And the question of how much CO2 we have “in excess” has absolutely nothing to do with the discussion of whether humans are causing the planet to warm up or not.

I'm using this wrong assertion as an example of all the others you make.

CO2 is a greenhouse gas. IOW increasing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere will increase the amount of heat the atmosphere will be able to retain.

The carbon cycle is the major way that CO2 is added to and removed from the environment. Unfortunately for us this cycle has limited capacity based, primarily, on the amount of plant life on Earth.

Therefore if humans release CO2 into the atmosphere in excess of the amount the carbon cycle removes, which all available evidence supports, then CO2 will start building up in the atmosphere. This increase in CO2 concetration will increase the amount of heat the atmosphere can retain.

Therefore excess CO2 is the issue in question and is the vital question in determining if global warming is caused by human action.

Therefore claiming "only 5%" of CO2 released into the atmosphere is of human origin is at best a red herring but since it was at variance with what I've seen presented elsewhere I asked for a source.

The pertinent question is how much of that CO2 is beyond the capacity of the carbon cycle to handle and will therefore build up in the atmosphere. Which is what I asked and which you evaded twice.

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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/15/2007 10:27:45 AM   
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… see how long before Europe begs us for protection…


...i suspect you may be waiting a very long time and also be wondering where to get some rather vital raw materials from without declaring war on people.............

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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/15/2007 11:02:25 AM   
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You folks keep calling America Imperial... but you seem to forget that most colonies of the great European countries were plundered by their distant rulers. They finally threw off the yolk of their oppressors.

Most of the American colonies on the other hand petitioned to become part of the United States… thus the United and States part of the name. All colonies have prospered with the association with America.

Raw materials from whom… Europe… give me a break…

We have saved your butts twice… you begged for us to come… please America save us from ourselves. It will happen again… I hope we tell you to go to hell next time.

Except for France…. Thanks for the help in the revolution. But that debit is about paid back.

Butch

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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/15/2007 12:52:33 PM   
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We are causing some global warming but because we are in a period of time when the sun is heating up just makes it worse for us.  If we want to save our asses we better start Putting men on mars and begin terra forming the danm planet. Of course we would still have to rough it here on Earth for another 200 years.  Hopefully this global warming causes an ice age, man has survived one before and then there where the mini ice ages in the middle ages. Time to test Modern day.  Get your heaters ready XD


Humans aren’t contributing to global warming, period.

Global warming is part of an ongoing natural cycle. Something that the fraudulent hockey stick graph currently used doesn’t factor in.

However, as you’ve touched on, ever since the end of the last ice age, we’ve gone through periods of warming maximums, with each maximum being warmer than the one after it. The hottest its been for the current interglacial, the Holocene Period, was during the Holocene Maximum, where it was much warmer than it is now.

That was approximately 9 to 6 thousand years ago--long before we pumped industrial CO2 into the atmosphere.

We’ve had more global warming periods since then, with the most recent one being the Medieval Warm Period, directly mentioned in your post, which was still warmer than it was today.

Most the current warming took place prior to the 1950s, with the 1930’s being the warmest decade. (Thanks to NASA’s correcting our temperatures from the 90s and this decade.)

Things like this speak strongly against humans contributing to global warming.

And speaking for your wish for an ice age, we’re long overdue for one. And there are scientists that are saying that we could be heading into one.


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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/15/2007 12:58:01 PM   
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Do you guys in the denial crowd really have nothing better to do than keep trotting out these tired red herrings from two years ago? This is so pitiful. If your goal is to keep your head in the sand, by all means, leave the problem to the adults to solve. If on the other hand you really are curious to understand this piece of data, here's a pretty good discussion.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/10/global-warming-on-mars/
 

First, in order for something to be a red herring, it has to have nothing to do with the discussion.

Second, in order to be a “denier”, one must deny something that’s factual.

The arguments that I, and others on my side advanced on this thread, DON’T fit either of those descriptions.

You’re assuming that human caused global warming is a “fact,” and that anybody that doesn’t see this is a “denier.”

Hate to break this out to you, but the list of “deniers” include climatologists, geologists, solar physicists, etc. Matter of fact, here are a list of real scientists who disagree with the human caused global warming theory:


http://www.iceagenow.com/Climatologists_Who_Disagree.htm

Don’t mistake our embracing scientific data that contradicts the human caused global warming theory as “sticking our heads in the sand.”

That’s called letting science work the way it’s supposed to work.

And no, this isn’t something where my side of the argument brings things up that were dug up a few years ago:


http://outside.away.com/outside/culture/200710/richard-lindzen-1.html
Global Warming Skeptics will be vindicated, October 2007.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/2007%2005-03%20AusIMM%20corrected.pdf
Human caused global warming myth, no warming since 1998, 2006/2007.

http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000005397.cfm
Actual papers published show NO scientific consensus on global warming, September, 2007.

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/comment/story.html?id=1edd8fbd-7084-4eb1-9f39-ecdee5378809
No global warming in Antarctica, September, 2007.

In order to solve a problem, you have to have the facts together. The facts have to indicate that we actually have the problem that you claim we have. The solution will have to be based on those facts.

The reality is that human “caused” global warming isn’t a problem, because humans AREN’T responsible for changing the climate. It’s a natural cycle.

As for “Real Climate,” that’s a website representing the anthropogenic global warming argument, hardly something you could present as this argument’s final authority.

However, let me address an inaccuracy that I read in that article.

Yes, the Martian year is equivalent to two Earth years. The Martian cap melted for three earth summers, meaning, it melted throughout an ENTIRE Martian year, which included an entire year of Martian seasons.

The article that I read, talking about the Martian ice cap melt, did say that it melted three Earth summers, not what that Real Climate insinuates.


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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/15/2007 1:08:44 PM   
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Herfacechair, you are on to some stunning discoveries that have somehow escaped the entire international climatology community for years. You'd better run and get yourself a PhD in some climatology-related field, and then publish a few hundred peer-reviewed papers discussing your heretofore-unconsidered objections to the consensus. Because, somehow, every climatology-related scientific body in the entire world is unaware of your groundbreaking insights.


Again, from REAL scientists:

http://outside.away.com/outside/culture/200710/richard-lindzen-1.html
Global Warming Skeptics will be vindicated, October 2007.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~glrmc/2007%2005-03%20AusIMM%20corrected.pdf
Human caused global warming myth, no warming since 1998, 2006/2007.

Oh, and did you mention publishing peer reviewed papers? That’s been already done:

http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000005397.cfm

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Researchers examined published between 2004 and 2007. They found that only 38 percent of scientists accepted claims about global warming without question. Forty-eight percent were neutral.


Now, this is just about claims concerning global warming, not on what’s causing it. You mentioned a “consensus”, well, since when did 38 percent constitute a consensus?

As for your claims that “every” climatology related field is unaware of my findings, I beg to differ.

From that same article, only one paper out of the 528 papers looked at talked about catastrophic global warming, the kind that the IPCC talked about.

I doubt you read my other posts, otherwise, you would’ve found out that I based my arguments partially on what climatologists, who disagree with the IPCC’s recommendations, have said.

Your claim that every climatology related body in the world is “unaware” of “my” findings is FALSE and falls flat on its face. It’s partially because of those findings, discovered by other climatologists, that 48% of the papers looked at were written by people that were neutral about the subject.


SuzanneKneeling: (My God, the persistance of ignorance in this country just knows no boundaries.)

From dictionary.com:

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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ignorance

n. The condition of being uneducated, unaware, or uninformed.


Let’s examine the three. Those of us that disagree with human caused global warming have EDUCATED ourselves with the FACTS surrounding this argument. This includes climate facts that even the anthropogenic global warming crowd have access to.

Unaware? I’m aware of two things. The arguments the anthropogenic crowd uses, as well as the facts that prove them wrong. I presented those facts on this thread, which people have yet to prove wrong.

I wouldn’t be creating a counter argument if I were “uniformed” about what the other side is trying to convey.

However, by admitting that I’ve made some “stunning” discoveries, you’re admitting that you were uneducated, unaware, and uniformed about the information that I’ve presented on this thread.

Again, information that the other side has failed to prove wrong.

Now, if you’re confident that I’m “wrong”, you’re more than welcome to take the global warming challenge, and win $129,000.00. If you think that humans are “causing” global warming, and that it’s a “no brainer,” here’s a couple of links for you:


http://www.junkscience.com/
http://ultimateglobalwarmingchallenge.com/

If the scientific community is all in “consensus”, or has a “majority consensus”, and if you’re sure that I’m “wrong,” and that I’m “ignorant” about this issue, why don’t you take this challenge?

I mean, at least one of those in the consensus should be able to jump in and claim this prize, right? As of this writing, nobody has claimed it! (70 days)

Heck, you don’t have to be a climatologist, linking to the peer reviewed papers you talk about should suffice.

If the people running this challenge are “ignorant”, certainly someone at “your” level of knowledge and understanding should be able to win the prize as easily as someone stealing candy from a baby, right?


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National and international science academies and professional societies have assessed the current scientific opinion on climate change, in particular recent global warming. These assessments have largely followed or endorsed the IPCC position that "An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system... There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities".[1]


From someone that participated in the studies that lead to the IPCC position:

It's not 2,500 people offering their consensus, I participated in that. Each person who is an author writes one or two pages in conjunction with someone else.” - Dr. Lindzen

“Ultimately, it is written by representatives of governments, of environmental organizations like the Union of Concerned Scientists, and industrial organizations, each seeking their own benefit.” - Dr. Lindzen

Those 2,500 AREN’T in consensus, per someone that was actually there. Other scientists have stepped forward to complain that their names were included as “rubber stamping” the IPCC’s conclusions despite the fact that their assessments weren’t included because it disagreed with what the IPCC wanted.

These weren’t just American scientists.

I mean, it speaks volumes when the people in charge of this project pressure scientists to IGNORE the errors between computer models among each other, as well as computer model error against the real climate.

And check this gem out:


http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p1845.htm

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There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.


As of this writing, 19,000 American scientists have signed this petition.

Hmm, let’s do the numbers.

On one hand, we have 2,500 who don’t even have a consensus. On the other hand, we have 19,000 scientists, and counting, who DISAGREE with the theory that humans are causing global warming.

Again, your assumption that I’m on to some stunning discoveries that escaped the climatologist community for years falls flat on its face.

Now, let’s look at where the link in your source got its source:


http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/index.htm

The working group, the IPCC! The very people that carried out a miscarriage of true scientific methods and principles.

Could you imagine if a lawyer were to use this standard of “proof” in a court of law?

“Your honor, my client is innocent, didn’t commit the crime, I submit to you my client’s statement to the police after he was arrested as proof of his innocence . . .”


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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/15/2007 1:23:14 PM   
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Herfacechair, if you want to believe in this "myth" garbage, you will. If you decide at some point to stop abusing your own precious brain, then I suggest you go to your library, and start keeping up on real peer-reviewed science. I don't have any more time for this today. Best of luck.

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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/15/2007 1:24:59 PM   
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Domken: I'm using this wrong assertion as an example of all the others you make.

Negative. What you assume to be “wrong assertions” are actually correct assessments that hit the nail on the head.

What I said still stands.

We’re arguing about whether human caused CO2 emissions are causing the climate to warm up or not. Until you could prove that CO2 is responsible for global warming, you’ve got no legs to stand on asking if we’re emitting in excess or not.

What I stated, which you erroneously label as a “wrong assertion”, is FACT.  I’ll demonstrate that with the rest of my reply.


Domken: CO2 is a greenhouse gas.

Correct, but it isn’t the MAJORITY COMPOSITION. CO2 is one of the minority green house gases. Water vapor constitutes the vast majority of green house gases.

Domken: IOW increasing the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere will increase the amount of heat the atmosphere will be able to retain.

First, water vapor, as the MAIN greenhouse gas, is more responsible for maintaining heat in our atmosphere. CO2 constitutes one of the minority gases witch constitutes the other 5% of the green house gases.

Second, CO2 DOESN’T cause heat to rise, ice core samples show that it’s the other way around, that
an increase in temperature comes before an increase in CO2.

Domken: The carbon cycle is the major way that CO2 is added to and removed from the environment. Unfortunately for us this cycle has limited capacity based, primarily, on the amount of plant life on Earth.

There's allot more to this than plants.

When the world’s oceans warm up, they release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. When they get cold, they take CO2 out of the atmosphere.

The world’s oceans contribute far more CO2 into the atmosphere than human industrial and urban activity. Heck, a volcano could easily do that.

This cycle doesn’t show any evidence of approaching limits. People like to argue about how the waters near Antarctica have “reached” their CO2 absorbing capacity, but fail to mention that our warming oceans are releasing CO2 into the atmosphere.

That cancels out the effects of the Polar ocean regions “reaching capacity” on their ability to absorb CO2.

Again, we’re approaching 400 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere. We’ve held far more than that in the past, even when there was terrestrial life on this planet.


Domken: Therefore if humans release CO2 into the atmosphere in excess of the amount the carbon cycle removes, which all available evidence supports, then CO2 will start building up in the atmosphere. This increase in CO2 concetration will increase the amount of heat the atmosphere can retain.

First, that’s a BIG “IF.” The CO2 that our industrial and urban activities emit constitute a small fraction of one percent of the total green house gases into the atmosphere.

Second, negative on the “all available evidence” bit. I’ve seen some of those reports, and they deliberately exclude other data that proves their argument wrong.

You’re assuming that humans are the main contributors to the CO2 in the atmosphere.

Again, the reality is that the oceans are the leading CO2 emitters into the atmosphere, not humans. The warm oceans releasing CO2 into the atmosphere get that CO2 from somewhere. One source is other areas of the oceans, cold areas, that are sucking in CO2 from the atmosphere.

It’s the latter that gets cherry picked by those that like to claim that our CO2 recovery cycle is “broken” or has “reached” it’s “limites.”

The warmer it gets, the more the oceans will release CO2 into the atmosphere.

This was the case in the past.

Now, considering that we’ve had up to 7,000 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere before, and we’re currently approaching 400 parts per million CO2 right now, the idea that we’ve reached beyond “recovery” stage, or are on our way to doing that, doesn’t hold.

Consider this. 4000 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere BEFORE WE EXISTED compared to 400 parts per million that we’ll see one day. We’ve got plenty of room to maneuver here.

Your “what we’re emitting in excess” theory goes out the window, in addition to not having anything to do with the discussion of whether we’re “causing” global warming or not.


Domken: Therefore excess CO2 is the issue in question and is the vital question in determining if global warming is caused by human action.

No it isn’t.

Again, the argument is whether humans are causing global warming or not. Those who think that we’re causing it have to prove that the CO2 that we emit into the atmosphere is solely, or mainly, responsible for the recent global warming.


So far, nobody on this thread, or the other message boards I’ve argued this topic on, has proven that we’re responsible for global warming. None have proven their theory that CO2 is the main green house gas, thus the main culprit behind the current global warming.

You can’t start talking about “excess CO2” until you prove the above. Especially considering that we’ve had much higher C02 concentrations in the past.


Domken: Therefore claiming "only 5%" of CO2 released into the atmosphere is of human origin is at best a red herring

Negative.

Claiming that only 5% of the CO2 released into the atmosphere is simply making a statement of fact.

And it has EVERYTHING to do with the argument as to whether we’re causing global warming or not.

You see, you people are using CO2 as part of your argument that we’re “behind” global warming. One of the things that my side of the argument has to do is to prove that CO2 isn’t the cause of global warming, and that we’re not the main CO2 contributors.

I’ve successfully done that here, and on other message boards.

By proving that humans don’t contribute the most CO2, that CO2 isn’t the main green house gas, and that temperature rise precedes CO2 rise, my side proves your side of the argument wrong.

HENCE, stating the fact that we contribute only 5% of the CO2 into the atmosphere has EVERYTHING to do with the argument.

Talking about CO2 in excess has nothing to do with the argument until you could prove that we’re contributing most the CO2, that CO2 is the main green house gas, and that we have more CO2 in the atmosphere than what this planet has had before.


Domken: but since it was at variance with what I've seen presented elsewhere I asked for a source.

You mean, it conflicted with the sources you’ve seen that supports your argument. It wouldn’t surprise me if your sources negated natural CO2 sources, and other green house gases, in a mathematical and graphical attempt to make human caused CO2 look like the “main” CO2 emitted into the atmosphere.

Domken: The pertinent question is how much of that CO2 is beyond the capacity of the carbon cycle to handle and will therefore build up in the atmosphere. Which is what I asked and which you evaded twice. REPEAT POINT, RED HERRING

AGAIN, what we’re emitting “in excess” has nothing to do with this argument until you could prove that humans emit the most CO2, that CO2 is the “main” greenhouse gas, and that humans are responsible for global warming.

You’ve failed to do that.

Your question assumes that humans “cause” global warming, and it further assumes that we’ve “reached” our CO2 recycling limit.

Considering that we’ve had 7000 parts per million before, we’re nowhere NEAR reaching excess.

Ice core samples show that temperature rise comes before CO2 rise, not the other way around.

And considering that most the CO2 emitted into the atmosphere comes from natural sources, the smaller percent that we contribute is a NON ARGUMENT.

My answer remained on the argument’s topic.

All this adds to one thing, the argument of how much HUMANS are emitting “in excess” is a non argument, a non question, and it has nothing to do with the debate.

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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/15/2007 1:41:49 PM   
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Herfacechair, if you want to believe in this "myth" garbage, you will. If you decide at some point to stop abusing your own precious brain, then I suggest you go to your library, and start keeping up on real peer-reviewed science. I don't have any more time for this today. Best of luck.


I’m going to believe what real science tells me. This thread’s end is also going to see me with the exact same assessments I had before I jumped into this thread.

And yes, I’ve received this information from various sources, not just the internet, but from the library, book store, and various documentaries.

I’ve also read various peer reviewed papers on the topic.

You’re dismissing this as a “myth”, yet do nothing to prove what I say wrong. You don’t even indicate if you’re going to take the global warming challenge. Hmm, why don’t any of the authors of the “real” peer reviewed science take this challenge?

There’s way too much scientific data proving this point for it to be just a “myth”.

My not taking these scientific data proving human caused global warming wrong, and my simply running with the crowd, would’ve constituted an abuse of the brain.

Real science doesn’t operate on a consensus on something as controversial as human “caused” global warming. Especially if there’s way to much evidence proving that theory wrong. That defeats science’s purpose.

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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/15/2007 1:45:21 PM   
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Let it melt! I mean really ... who cares!

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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/15/2007 2:50:39 PM   
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Let it melt! I mean really ... who cares!


......human beings who actually think that letting small low lying countries disappear is a bad idea......you're from the UK, maybe even from London. What do you think that great big Thames barrier is there for?

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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/15/2007 8:19:51 PM   
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I'm getting real bored with this but I'll correct another  wrong assertion..

CO2 in the oceans, why does warming of the oceans cause the release of CO2 when any halfwit who has even a basic unbderstanding of chemistry knows that warmer water can keep more of anything that enters solution? Because warm water is bad for the phytoplankton which are the primary CO2 to O2 photosynthesizers around. The warmer the oceans gets the less carbon is being absorbed by those microscopic organisms so eventually the water has absorbed more than it can hold due to the output of all the oceanic animal life making CO2 out of O2 which makes most of the CO2 released by warming oceans excess CO2 and likely to stick around in the atmosphere for a long while.

So why don't you at least learn enough about what we're discussing to know why the arctic and antarctic waters reaching CO2 saturation is potentially a very bad thing? BTW basic chemistry does indicate that CO2 concetrations in those waters are reaching the saturation beyond which those waters will start to release CO2 from solution back into the atmosphere which would mean that the phytoplankton have reached the carrying capacity of the water they're in which would mean that CO2 concetrations in the atmosphere will start increasing at an even higher rate. The sad thing is that pollution, overfishing and whaling have decimated the organisms that would eat massive amounts of phytoplankton allowing for vigorous growth and reproduction of the plankton which would help alleviate some of the problems caused by anthogenic CO2. Of course the same could be said of the rainforests but deforestation continues at an unsustainable pace.


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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/15/2007 8:38:57 PM   
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and then what?

Whats the rest of the cycle?



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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/16/2007 6:57:47 AM   
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and then what?

Whats the rest of the cycle?



Just in case this isn't facetious I'll give rough over view of the carbon cycle.

CO2 + sunlight + other chemicals -> plant photosythesis -> O2 + sugars + proteins ->animals breathe and consume plants or animals that consumed plants-> CO2 + various and sundry organic waste that can breakdown into the other inputs excluding sunlight of course.

There are some inorganic processes that remove, sequestor, CO2 from the atmosphere and/or oceans but they're all pretty minor compared to the organic carbon cycle.

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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/16/2007 7:10:29 AM   
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and then what?

Whats the rest of the cycle?



Just in case this isn't facetious I'll give rough over view of the carbon cycle.

CO2 + sunlight + other chemicals -> plant photosythesis -> O2 + sugars + proteins ->animals breathe and consume plants or animals that consumed plants-> CO2 + various and sundry organic waste that can breakdown into the other inputs excluding sunlight of course.

There are some inorganic processes that remove, sequestor, CO2 from the atmosphere and/or oceans but they're all pretty minor compared to the organic carbon cycle.


ok so whats the ratio of anthropogenic to fossil, and how is water vapor factored in?





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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/16/2007 10:06:14 AM   
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any halfwit who has even a basic unbderstanding of chemistry knows that warmer water can keep more of anything that enters solution?

Heat a bottle with a carbonated drink and it will explode. Cold water can hold far more of a gas than warmer water.

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any halfwit who has even a basic unbderstanding of chemistry knows that warmer water can keep more of anything that enters solution?

Heat a bottle with a carbonated drink and it will explode. Cold water can hold far more of a gas than warmer water.

Wrong.

Heat a sealed bottle of an uncarbonated liquid and it will explode as well. Heated liquids expand. Why do carbonated drinks fizz when you open the bottle? Because the liquid was warmer when the CO2 was added and the container sealed. As it cooled the remaining air in the container absorbed all CO2 it could. The liquid though is super saturated with CO2 and will shed it if possible.

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RE: The ice is melting on Mars - 10/16/2007 12:40:15 PM   
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Wrong.

Heat a sealed bottle of an uncarbonated liquid and it will explode as well. Heated liquids expand. Why do carbonated drinks fizz when you open the bottle? Because the liquid was warmer when the CO2 was added and the container sealed. As it cooled the remaining air in the container absorbed all CO2 it could. The liquid though is super saturated with CO2 and will shed it if possible.



strange.  i carbonate my home brewskis at 40 degrees.  are you saying i need to warm the beer first?

then you did not respod to this either:  ok so whats the ratio of anthropogenic to fossil, and how is water vapor factored in?-

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Wrong.

Heat a sealed bottle of an uncarbonated liquid and it will explode as well. Heated liquids expand. Why do carbonated drinks fizz when you open the bottle? Because the liquid was warmer when the CO2 was added and the container sealed. As it cooled the remaining air in the container absorbed all CO2 it could. The liquid though is super saturated with CO2 and will shed it if possible.



strange.  i carbonate my home brewskis at 40 degrees.  are you saying i need to warm the beer first?

then you did not respod to this either:  ok so whats the ratio of anthropogenic to fossil, and how is water vapor factored in?-

You're presumably carbonating the beer by way of adding yeast and sugar to the beer when it is bottled. The CO2 is produced by the yeast until the yeast die from starvation or from too much alcohol, I'm not sure which, which has no where to go since the bottle is sealed. The result is the same as a pop though, the beer is super saturated with CO2 which will result in it emiting CO2 gas when agitated or exposed to air that isn't itself saturated with CO2.

As to the carbon cycle stuff, most anthogenic carbon is the result of combustion and most human combustion is fueled by fossil fuels so it's most of the CO2 produced by human action but not all.

Water vapor has only a peripheal relationship to the carbon cycle. Water is vital to metabolism so it plays a role in the cycle. As to water vapor as a greenhouse gas, water vapor is not changing too much at present although as the atmosphere warms the amount of water vapor will likely increase as warm air can retain more water vapor than colder air and water evaporates more radily as air and water temperature increases.

Humans add water vapor to the air as well, burning any hydrocarbon produces both H2O and CO2, but water doesn't persist in the air in same way as CO2. although burning fossil fuel does result in an increase in the amount of H2O in the environment but some quick checking indicates that the amount of water made isn't going to have that big an effect on the environment due to the quantity produced.

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