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Way Under the Sea, Violent Eruptions From Volcanoes
NY Times ^
| July 8, 2008
| HENRY FOUNTAIN
Posted on 07/12/2008 8:51:22 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: Chaguito; All
Dont forget too, that the temp of the water directly affects the amount of CO2 it can hold in solution. its an inverse relationship, the colder the water the more it holds. The warmer the water, the more it releases, and it wont absorb as much. As that water moves south, and warms up, the Co2 entrained will begin to come out of solution and back into the atmosphere. Id love to see the volumes of Co2 in THAT particular water sample, I bet its almost fizzy like beer!
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posted on
07/12/2008 11:11:41 PM PDT
by
intenseracer
(Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder)
To: neverdem
Refueling accident at the UFO base?
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posted on
07/12/2008 11:53:56 PM PDT
by
SeaWolf
(Orwell must have foreseen the 21st Century US Congress when he wrote 1984)
To: neverdem; Defendingliberty; Genesis defender; WL-law; Normandy; TenthAmendmentChampion; FrPR; ...
To: lightman
Nope, its Global Warming the way Mother Nature intended it. But it is actually global cooling... the heat is being transferred from within to the outside, where it will dissipate.
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posted on
07/13/2008 5:43:20 AM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
To: Chaguito
>>
I think there are a lot of embarrassed scientists who are looking for an objective way to change their minds about global warming.
<<
We can only hope they find a way to work up the courage to join the popular crowd that is hell-bent on proving AGW no matter what and follow where the facts have always pointed, no matter what the professional consequences.
Because liberals (even liberal scientists) lack principles, their decision-making processes don't have a “tipping point” as much as they they have a “flipping point”, where they suddenly feel compelled to support something they previously had worked against.
To: icwhatudo
I know what you are saying, and you are exactly correct.
But, I also think it is like everything else.
earthquakes
global warming
sunspots
There is not just one factor. There are many. So many it is very hard to predict, almost impossible, one might say.
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posted on
07/13/2008 7:59:23 AM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
To: neverdem
Do shallow (1500 meters) eruptions count too? Loihi has been active for at least twelve years. Of course Kilauea has been erupting for the last 25 years and pouring lava into the ocean and creating a nuisance with noxious vog. Wait......we have no precious ice cap here so it's like tossing a match into the sea.
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posted on
07/13/2008 3:27:49 PM PDT
by
BIGLOOK
(Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
To: neverdem
Making the estimate that the ice is about 3 meters thick in the arctic. (Of course, it is much thicker some places and much thinner in others.) Then the energy of Mount St. Helens would melt about 100 square kilometers of ice in the Arctic. (Assuming the energy were transmitted straight to the ice, without heating the water.)
The bottom line
The Arctic goes through some serious changes in sea ice extent every year as the season change. The sea ice extent changes by about 10 million square kilometers every year. 100 square kilometers is about one hundred thousandth of that. It would take a thousand volcanos the size of Mount St. Helens every year to account for just 1% of the yearly Arctic ice loss.
The numbers for the above conclusion are worked out
here
Best Regards,
ClimateSanity
To: neverdem
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posted on
07/13/2008 10:08:22 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: FrogMom; 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BenLurkin; ..
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07/13/2008 10:08:37 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: ClimateSanity
Let me be the first to welcome you to FreeRepublic.com, and thank you for the link.
I didn’t post the article for any particular reason, i.e. melting of the Arctic Ocean’s Icesheet. I’m a science junky, and vulcanism and its effect on ocean pH, coral reefs and atmospheric carbon dioxide are other interesting phenomena off the top of my head.
I checked out your link and some of your website. Is 1.0E+6 a standard exponential notation for 10 to the 6th power now? It’s been quite a while since I got my B.S. Physicians usually don’t have deal with exponential notation.
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posted on
07/14/2008 12:01:41 AM PDT
by
neverdem
(I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
To: SunkenCiv; LucyT
thanks for the ping Civ.
LucyT, this topic may be of interest to you.
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posted on
07/14/2008 2:57:25 AM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
( IT'S A HOOT IT'S A TOOT!)
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