Re: Time to talk about Global Warming [was Re: Maccies aren't fanatical? (by the way, what is a "Maccie?)]


Wegie wrote:
In article <a13k72p1cn0n05hng56lmutaigmso4a053@xxxxxxx>,
Mayor of R'lyeh <mayor.of.rlyeh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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fixing it is a win / win for everyone.

The earth's climate is far more complex that a bubble of water. That's
a large part of the envirowhackos problems. They want to make
everything as simple as can be and then declare it accurate. That's
why their computer models pretend that that the atmosphere has no
clouds and the oceans have no currents.
No responsible adult even thinks that simplistic thinking even comes
close to reflecting reality.

why so clueless on this subject Mayor? could this be the reason you
don't even understand clouds are just condensed water?

Also one earth fart (aka volcano eruption) spews more crap into the
air than all of manking has throughout history. Somehow the planet is
capable of handling this. Am I really supposed to take seriously the
notion that letting my Chevy idle too long is going to turn the earth
into a charcoal briquet? No one with any brains would even consider
such an idiotic notion worthwhile.

what??? a volcano, even the huge ones that occur every decade or so are
a tiny hit to the atmosphere compared to the ongoing day, to day
expulsion of "man-made" fossil fuel burning.

You know, this sort of thing is really easy to figure out. About 30
seconds of googling gave me this site:
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/frequent_questions/grp6/question1375.html

From the site:

The question was "How much CO2 did Mt. St. Helens spew into the
atmosphere during the 1980 eruption? The answer is as follows:
"

I don't have an exact number. At Mount St Helens the maximum measured
emission rate was 2.2X10^7 kg per day. The total amount of gas released
during non-eruptive periods from the beginning of July to the end of
October was 9.1X10^8 kg . I do not have an estimate for the volume of
CO2 released during the Plinian eruptions. As a long-term average,
volcanism produces about 5X10^11 kg of CO2 per year; that production,
along with oceanic and terrestrial biomass cycling maintained a carbon
dioxide reservoir in the atmosphere of about 2.2X10^15 kg. Current
fossil fuel and land use practices now introduce about a (net)
17.6X10^12 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere and has resulted in a
progressively increasing atmospheric reservoir of 2.69X10^15 kg of CO2.
Hence, volcanism produces about 3% of the total CO2 with the other 97%
coming from man-made sources. For more detail, see Morse and Mackenzie,
1990, Geochemistry of Sedimentary Carbonates.
Scott Rowland, University of Hawaii Steve Mattox, University of North
Dakota

Source of Information:
Harris, D.M., Sato, M., Casadevall, T.J., Rose, Jr., W.I., and
Bornhorst, T.J., 1981, Emission rates of CO2 from plume measurements,
in Lipman, P.W., and Mullineaux, D.R., (eds.), The 1980 eruptions of
Mount St. Helens, Washington, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
1250, p. 3-15."

So, as usual, when it comes to talking about science, it really is best
to ignore what the Mayor says.
[snip]
--
Dave Fritzinger
Honolulu, HI

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