Posted on 06/11/2014 3:15:09 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
The article fits very well with the likelihood that the rise of the Himalayas together with the Monsoon rain patterns resulted a big carbon sink. The all time low CO2 levels may have been one of a number of factors leading to the ice ages.
Great screenname! LOL!
The article appears to be deeply flawed by disregarding the role of the positioning of the supercontinent astride the tropical belt at the the same time the shallow Tethys Sea promoted increased plant growth, the Devonian and Carboniferous forests developed and dramatically increased the atmospheric concentrations of Oxygen by equally dramatic depletion Carbon dioxide, the increased Oxygen concentrations lowered atmospheric temperatures, and the lowered atmospheric temperatures removed Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and kept it dissolved in the hydrosphere. Similar cycles can be seen every time the Earth’s temperatures have become cold the atmospheric concentrations of Carbon dioxide have dramatically declined.
A little mix of God deriving the function that we discovered as mathematics. The rest is physics.
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