Re: More Climate change (3.00 / 0) (#4) by joestue on Fri Jan 4th, 2008 at 02:06:30 AM MST (User Info)

Notice the instability in recent history

Re: More Climate change (3.00 / 0) (#5) by southpaw on Fri Jan 4th, 2008 at 06:35:35 AM MST (User Info)

I'm thinking the instability probably has a lot to do with the invention of the thermometer. Southpaw [ Parent ]

Re: More Climate change (3.00 / 0) (#6) by DamonHD (d@hd.org) on Fri Jan 4th, 2008 at 07:07:22 AM MST (User Info) http://www.earth.org.uk/

Testing causes cancer in lab rats... [ Parent ]

Re: More Climate change (3.00 / 0) (#7) by TomW on Fri Jan 4th, 2008 at 08:53:59 AM MST (User Info)

Life is a sexually transmitted, terminal disease. [ Parent ]

Re: More Climate change (3.00 / 0) (#8) by wooferhound (tim((NoSpamAt))wooferhound.com) on Fri Jan 4th, 2008 at 09:02:05 AM MST (User Info) http://wooferhound.com

Time Flys Like the Wind but Fruit Flys Like Bananas W o o f -={( [ Parent ]

Re: More Climate change (3.00 / 0) (#10) by asheets on Fri Jan 4th, 2008 at 12:48:44 PM MST (User Info)

I have always questioned the effacy of graphs like this.  Up until the last 100 years, you really can't accurately measure atmospheric CO2.  You can guess with tree rings, ice and soil cores, and c14 dating, but you can't compensate for some things like changing absorption rates. However, based on my training as a climatologist and the last century's worth of collected data with a consistent methodology, I'll offer a couple of weak hypotheses: The amount of atmospheric CO2 seems to be increasing. The absorption of atmospheric CO2 seems to be decreasing. This might be doing something to the climate. _____________________________ Alan Sheets [ Parent ]

Re: More Climate change (3.00 / 0) (#12) by richhagen (richhagen (a t) Juno.com) on Fri Jan 4th, 2008 at 12:59:54 PM MST (User Info)

I'm about where you're at on this.  It just makes sense to me that we are burning carbon based fuels faster than they are being produced, and that corresponds well with increasing carbon dioxide levels.  Now I'm not sure what changing the composition of our atmosphere will do to the weather, but I would not be in the least bit surprised if it has a rather large effect.  I am still not in favor of using my only home as a lab experiment.  Rich 'A Joule saved is a Joule made' [ Parent ]

Re: More Climate change (3.00 / 0) (#14) by asheets on Fri Jan 4th, 2008 at 02:02:37 PM MST (User Info)

My gut feeling is that there is some sort of terminal threshold (either CO2 content or temperature), which if crossed will cause a runaway effect.  I think we are a bit far off from that threshold, but if it is crossed there won't be a damn thing we can do about it. _____________________________ Alan Sheets [ Parent ]

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