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Originally Posted by WarOnIgnorance
Do they really ? So does my coffee. Once again, if you want to imply that volcanic activity is a considerable factor in global warming, you have to quantify it.
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Quantifying the amount of thermal energy the eminates from the earth's core could be huge. Why have you ruled this out? Scientist haven't.
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Scientist: Dry Climate Could Trigger Huge Volcanic Eruptions
Friday, December 22, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO — Super volcanic eruptions that blast loads of ash sky-high can change the climate. Now scientists are finding that the relationship could go both ways — with the climate having an impact on huge volcanic eruptions.
A bone-dry climate, which occurs in periods between ice ages, could make conditions just right for building up enough underground magma to fuel a giant volcanic eruption, said Allen Glazner of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Human civilization has never experienced such a catastrophic eruption, which could blanket the state of Texas with soot two feet deep.
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Originally Posted by WarOnIgnorance
I'll assume you mean 'thermal' in the sense of 'geothermal' here, . . . let alone correlation, that volcanic activity has increased in relation to the rise of global temperatures.
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Are any explanations other than 'human existence' acceptable?
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Originally Posted by WarOnIgnorance
I notice that you're still unfamiliar with the nature of the global energy system the atmosphere constitutes. The constant 97% of CO² of previous ages is irrelevant as it's part of the equilibrium of the system.
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Human Made Global Warming Crisis sound like we should all turn in our car keys and ride donkey to work. I support alternative sources of energy, nuclear power is still under utilized.
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Originally Posted by WarOnIgnorance
Rest assured, it isn't. I drive a gas guzzling Italian sports car myself and have no qualms about that. It is the global totality of effects human enterprise inflicts on the atmosphere that is the problem. What individuals do is of minute consequence.
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Wow. I wasn't expecting that. I agree with you. Nature is more powerful than humans.
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Originally Posted by WarOnIgnorance
It's rather simple actually. If one continually adds energy to a closed system (by burning fossil fuels whose energy was locked up for ages, and by blanketing the dissipation into space by the use of greenhouse gasses), the surplus energy has to go somewhere.
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It just that energy comes from other sources as well.
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Fighting Global Warming
December 31, 2006
Assume global warming is real, caused by humans, and can be averted through immediate collective action on the part of all humanity. How then might we analyse what to do about global warming, based on everything we know?
More aerosols in the atmosphere would be a good way to quickly combat global warming, potentially saving Antarctic ice and immediately ending crippling droughts.
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Originally Posted by WarOnIgnorance
Bottom line here is: how far do we, globally, every individual and nation, want to push the system? If we're prepared to face the consequences, then there is no problem and everything can proceed as usual.
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There are risks in tampering with the atmosphere. It's unclear what the results would be from sending more aerosols out or in the past.
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Originally Posted by WarOnIgnorance
Indeed, that's the crux of the matter. There are no natural occurences that correlate scientifically to the increase of global temperatures and indeed, that leaves human activity.
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Originally Posted by WarOnIgnorance
Because you look at the problem in a political context and feel victimized because the US gets pointed to as the main culprit
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Prior to Katrina being blamed on President Bush, I never thought of weather as a polical tool. Now, 'Climate Justice' is the mainstream media's buzzwords used to spin every kind of weather event as a Republican plot to destroy the environment. I actually see warming as a good thing but not politically. I do recognize the political aspect of the weather now but, it's not my doing. I didn't come up with Crisis Weather chat rooms or Global Warming Chaos websites.
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Originally Posted by WarOnIgnorance
There are no active volcanos in the Alpine region yet there is an unprecedented lack of snow there that is now, today, destroying the regional tourist economy. A fine example of the imminent impact of the problem.
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You'r in the wrong state. Colorado has been having record snow falls making it impossibe to get around.
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Storm dumps more than 2 feet of snow west of Denver
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Government offices and some businesses closed Friday after a second storm in a week socked the foothills west of Denver area with more than 2 feet of snow, with more expected through the weekend.
28 inches of snow Thursday and several highways were closed by slick, icy conditions or by accidents that took hours to clear. Interstate 25, the main north-south highway through the state, was closed about 60 miles north of Denver and Interstate 70, the state's main east-west route, was closed from just east of Denver to about 20 miles east of the Kansas state line.
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