Global Warming ‘Greatest Scam in History’
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Methane bubbles in Arctic seas stir warming fears
OSLO (Reuters) – Large amounts of a powerful greenhouse gas are bubbling up from a long-frozen seabed north of Siberia, raising fears of far bigger leaks that could stoke global warming, scientists said.
It was unclear, however, if the Arctic emissions of methane gas were new or had been going on unnoticed for centuries -- since before the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century led to wide use of fossil fuels that are blamed for climate change.
GLOBAL WARMING
"No one can answer this question," she said of whether the venting was caused by global warming or by natural factors. But a projected rise in temperatures could quicken the thaw.
Methane bubbles in Arctic seas stir warming fears - Yahoo! News
OSLO (Reuters) – Large amounts of a powerful greenhouse gas are bubbling up from a long-frozen seabed north of Siberia, raising fears of far bigger leaks that could stoke global warming, scientists said.
It was unclear, however, if the Arctic emissions of methane gas were new or had been going on unnoticed for centuries -- since before the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century led to wide use of fossil fuels that are blamed for climate change.
GLOBAL WARMING
"No one can answer this question," she said of whether the venting was caused by global warming or by natural factors. But a projected rise in temperatures could quicken the thaw.
Methane bubbles in Arctic seas stir warming fears - Yahoo! News
I thought about that and came up with a solution. "Keep a candle lite wherever the gas bubbles up" http://www.volleyball.org/olympics/original.html
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As methane is a stronger greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, it would probably be better to light the escaping gas on fire...kind of the lesser of two harms really.:-(
Want a match? lol
careful you don't hold it too close to Walter, though. I don't think he's equipped for the complicated theory involved in space exploration, let alone the physical demands.
Peter Lorre and Walter Pidgeon did a movie about something like this in the 60's.
Perhaps he can explain then the discrepancy between ocean heat content, and his findings of stable sea level. Thermal expansion is basic physics, and we have plenty of observations indicating that the world ocean is heating up.
He shouldn't denigrate people who use computer models...he after all is an advocate of water dowsing...
Growing low-oxygen zones in oceans worry scientists
WASHINGTON — Lower levels of oxygen in the Earth's oceans, particularly off the United States' Pacific Northwest coast, could be another sign of fundamental changes linked to global climate change, scientists say.
They warn that the oceans' complex undersea ecosystems and fragile food chains could be disrupted.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100307/sc_mcclatchy/3444187
WASHINGTON — Lower levels of oxygen in the Earth's oceans, particularly off the United States' Pacific Northwest coast, could be another sign of fundamental changes linked to global climate change, scientists say.
They warn that the oceans' complex undersea ecosystems and fragile food chains could be disrupted.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100307/sc_mcclatchy/3444187
El Niño unlikely to stay for the 2010 storm season.
El Niño, beloved in South Florida for hampering hurricanes, probably won't survive into the next storm season, experts say.
Although it's currently robust, climate models predict it will start to dissipate in the spring and disappear by summer. The atmospheric pattern on average lasts six to 12 months and almost never returns two years in a row, said Jon Gottschalck, head of forecast operations for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center.
"The most likely scenario would be a neutral and possibly a weak El Niño surviving into the summer," Gottschalck said. "But there's a lot of uncertainty there."
For now, it's influencing our winter weather, making for wetter and cooler conditions than normal. And it remains a powerful force elsewhere around the globe.
Here's everything you wanted to know about the atmospheric pattern.
What is El Niño, exactly?
El Niño is a large-scale weather pattern that creates instability in the atmosphere. It is created by unusually warm waters — up to 10 degrees above normal — in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean.
The heat creates thunderstorm activity, which then triggers heavy tropical rainfall. That, in turn, results in a number of climatic consequences, among them chaos in the upper atmosphere.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-el-nino-20100307,0,7033661.story
El Niño, beloved in South Florida for hampering hurricanes, probably won't survive into the next storm season, experts say.
Although it's currently robust, climate models predict it will start to dissipate in the spring and disappear by summer. The atmospheric pattern on average lasts six to 12 months and almost never returns two years in a row, said Jon Gottschalck, head of forecast operations for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center.
"The most likely scenario would be a neutral and possibly a weak El Niño surviving into the summer," Gottschalck said. "But there's a lot of uncertainty there."
For now, it's influencing our winter weather, making for wetter and cooler conditions than normal. And it remains a powerful force elsewhere around the globe.
Here's everything you wanted to know about the atmospheric pattern.
What is El Niño, exactly?
El Niño is a large-scale weather pattern that creates instability in the atmosphere. It is created by unusually warm waters — up to 10 degrees above normal — in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean.
The heat creates thunderstorm activity, which then triggers heavy tropical rainfall. That, in turn, results in a number of climatic consequences, among them chaos in the upper atmosphere.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-el-nino-20100307,0,7033661.story
Just follow the animals ..They know What's goin on better than disconnected humans..Watch the bubble don't burst ..PEU 
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He's a quote from a wise man on a different Thread on a different subject.
He's onto something applicable to many other subjects on many other
Threads. Hmmmm....
He's onto something applicable to many other subjects on many other
Threads. Hmmmm....
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