Posted on 07/02/2007 12:29:21 PM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
Ditto here in central Texas, where it’s currently 84 degrees, and we received 6 inches of snow Easter weekend.
No, he’s just trying to prove Dean Wormer was wrong about him, he can go through life “fat, drunk and stupid.”
Man's contribution of CO2 dwarfs vocanoes, I think by a 10 to 1 factor. Some skeptics have admitted their error on this.
Can you believe it is July 2 in Houston? Of course I have mold growing on everything I have from all the rain, but it’s not hot!
The answer i a government program mandating that everything be painted white. Each spring you will be required to spray paint all new foliage and grass white. White roof’s, white cars, white houses and bald heads. It’s a left wing albedo thing.
Source, please?
“Present-day carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from subaerial and submarine volcanoes are uncertain at the present time. Gerlach (1991) estimated a total global release of 3-4 x 10E12 mol/yr from volcanoes. This is a conservative estimate. Man-made (anthropogenic) CO2 emissions overwhelm this estimate by at least 150 times.”
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/Gases/man.html
“Volcanic eruptions can enhance global warming by adding CO2 to the atmosphere. However, a far greater amount of CO2 is contributed to the atmosphere by human activities each year than by volcanic eruptions. Volcanoes contribute about 110 million tons/year, whereas other sources contribute about 10 billion tons/year. The small amount of global warming caused by eruption-generated greenhouse gases is offset by the far greater amount of global cooling caused by eruption-generated particles in the stratosphere (the haze effect). Greenhouse warming of the earth has been particularly evident since 1980. Without the cooling influence of such eruptions as El Chichon (1982) and Mt. Pinatubo (1991), described below, greenhouse warming would have been more pronounced.”
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/climate_effects.html
Water vapor, a greenhouse gas fluctuates much more than 0.008% (1/125th of 1%).
How much effect does water vapor have compared to CO2? And has it increased, accounting for the increase in global temperatures?
Does water vapor reflect energy back into space, acting sometimes as a global cooler?
If an increase in water vapor increases global warming, does the warming generate more water vapor, yielding a positive feedback loop? If so, what counters the loop?
How many degrees would the earth’s temperature drop if all the CO2 disappeared from the atmosphere? How many degrees increase if CO2 doubled, trebled, or quadrupled?
I don’t know the answers.
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