Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 07/10/2010 5:06:20 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Bless you with that work schedule.
Any work done which does not consider the photosynthesis occurring in the oceans should be suspect. Most of the world’s O2 is generated by plants in the oceans. As I recall, the O2 in the atmosphere is replaced about every 7000 years due to the phytoplankton.
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You know, these climat change global warming buts do not like to examine geological history.During the cretaceous period, it has been proven that the soluable CO2 was radically higher in the oceans’ sea water, beause its measurable from the chalky deposits from shallow oceans that covered 1/3 of the earth. The fossil records show
that the earth was teaming with life, and that plants grew
richly , very thuck vegetation from pole to pole.
In fact life would thrive vociferacely if we had more CO2, the planet would warm but live would go on to thrive more
so than now.The paleontologists know waht the temperature gradients were of the atmosphere and the oceans.
The Cretaceous is thiought to have ended with extinction of many animals, not from global warming, but from an asteroid impact with the earth , the asteroid was about 6.2 miles wide, which caused several years of cooling due to blockage of the sun by dust clouds causd by the impact.
WHATS THE BIG DEAL? Its all about pseudo science, political correctness, and grant money. Another Ponzi scheme among many that governments have.All of this research is a laugh. The geological record of the earth tells us all that this CO2 boondoggle is a myth of vast proportions.
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After the end of the Berriasian, however, temperatures increased again, and these conditions were almost constant until the end of the period.[10] This trend was due to intense volcanic activity which produced large quantities of carbon dioxide. The development of a number of mantle plumes across the widening mid-ocean ridges further pushed sea levels up, so that large areas of the continental crust were covered with shallow seas. The Tethys Sea connecting the tropical oceans east to west also helped in warming the global climate. Warm-adapted plant fossils are known from localities as far north as Alaska and Greenland, while dinosaur fossils have been found within 15 degrees of the Cretaceous south pole.[11]
A very gentle temperature gradient from the equator to the poles meant weaker global winds, contributing to less upwelling and more stagnant oceans than today. This is evidenced by widespread black shale deposition and frequent anoxic events.[12] Sediment cores show that tropical sea surface temperatures may have briefly been as warm as 42 °C (107 °F), 17 °C (31 °F) warmer than at present, and that they averaged around 37 °C (99 °F). Meanwhile deep ocean temperatures were as much as 15 to 20 °C (27 to 36 °F) higher than today’s.[13][14]
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous
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“We can now settle obvious contradictions between experimental and theoretical studies,” says Miguel Mahecha, who played a crucial role in coordinating and evaluating the new measurements on ecosystem respiration.
His colleague Markus Reichstein adds: “Particularly alarmist scenarios for the feedback between global warming and ecosystem respiration thus prove to be unrealistic.”
Thanks for adding that.
Oh please. Everyone knows the only real CO2 studies are based on computer models. There’s no place for actual observed results in “real” science.
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