Ancient Climate Studies Suggest Earth On Fast Track To Global Warming

Terra Daily ^ | February 17, 2006 | Staff Writers

[cogitator]

Carbon dioxide is continuously removed from the atmosphere by plants, which use it to form sugars to store energy from sunlight. More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means more plant biomass, which consumes more carbon dioxide, which makes less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

And what exactly do animals do in this system?

[Ouderkirk]

No one considers that as the CO2 level increases and as temperature increases then so too does the photosynthetic efficiency of plants.

[Ford4000]

Human activities are releasing greenhouse gases more than 30 times faster than the rate of emissions that triggered a period of extreme global warming in the Earth's past, according to an expert on ancient climates.

So scientists have determined that past climate change is entirely a function of emissions. Sounds like a emission to me....

[cogitator]

But this fails to answer the critical question - was the release the cause of the warming? Or an effect of the warming?

In the case of the PETM, the release was, with near certainty, the cause of the warming. The PETM is a very interesting climate "incident" -- I've never been able to find a discussion of what triggered the release. But the temperature increase clearly lags the increasing carbon dioxide and methane concentrations in the atmosphere.

I can find links for you, or you can Google for them yourself. Goddard Institute of Space Studies had an article about "ocean burps" that I've posted here a few times.

[Fiddlstix]

We're Doomed!

[southernerwithanattitude]

Is it time to start running around in circles and screaming "we are doomed, we are doomed"?

[adorno]

... by professor at socialist university of Santa Cruz.

The credibility of liberal professors at liberal leaning universities is comparable to the credibility of some of our major newspapers, such as the NY Times and Washington Post. In other words, virtually no credibility.

[Marauder]

"State of Fear" by Crichton ...

I just read it and I agree; it's awesome.

[Semper Paratus]

The greeny's PR houses are cranking out this crap all this week in tune with the first anniversary of the so-called implementation of the so-called Kyoto Accords that nobody is honoring.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

according to an expert on ancient climates

Geee whizzzz....I didn't know that we had "climatologists" 30,ooo years ago. You learn something new every day!

If the Democrats ever get back into control, I'm sure they'll fix it though. (/sarc.)

[SalukiLawyer]

Well, if the scientists say it, then I have to accept it. Although I'll no doubt be ridiculed, I do not have the independent training to argue the findings or the math or the models. (In other words, I have the wrong graduate degree to talk to scientists.)

Everyone says global warming is a fact, especially scientists. People who are skeptical about it are derided as ignorant. So I'm sticking with the scientists on this one. Global warming is a fact, people. We need to do everything the scientists tell us to do in order to save our planet. We need to cut out on emissions that cause greenhouse gases... or whatever.

[Mike Darancette]

I think the professor was referring to the dinosaur emissions, otherwise known as farts, 55 million years ago.

Weren't no dinosaurs around 55 MYA.

[RockinRight]

In yet other news, studies of political campaigns suggest Democratic Party and liberalism on fast track to nowhere.

[adorno]

Weren't no dinosaurs around 55 MYA.

Of course not! Not after they all died off from all that global warming caused by all of their own emissions a few million years earlier. Yeesh!

[DogBarkTree]

Remind me to keep my surf board waxed.

[adorno]

Weren't no dinosaurs around 55 MYA.

Of course not! Not after they all died off from all that global warming caused by all of their own emissions a few million years earlier. Yeesh!

[aligncare]

Having a fat resume does not make one immune from political leanings. I have found that one's political orientation will often allow the data to be viewed in a way that supports that orientation - or even worse, the researcher misinterpets the data willfully for the sake of politics. Though, I'm not saying this researcher has done the latter. Just that Santa Cruz is notoriously liberal.

[Vinnie]

Let's just kill all the humans and solve the problem..

Read Tom Clancy's 'Rainbow Six'.

[SF Republican]

I am hoping my beach house on the fog shrouded San Francisco coast will soon feel like Hawaii.

[adorno]

.. for the sake of politics.

And quite ofter, for the sake of government grants to the universitites for research..