Global Warming: For Experts Only

[futurecurrents]

you don't have decent bone in your body.
you call me a liar...
then you proffer bullshit.

why do you never say something reasonable like...

interesting it looks like the author was right. maybe some the ice loss in due to natural cycles. But, then say... but I never said it was all man made co2.

your industry whore argument is silly. you make that claim in just about every time you see a conclusion you don't like. Its you substitute for an argument about the science.


you have industry whores and govt funding whores... and a few playing it straight.
in the end for you own benefit you have to read the science.. the opinion does not mater.

HE'S CLEARLY AN UNQUALIFIED INDUSTRY WHORE and the piece is shit, AND YOU KNOW IT......LIAR

Jem, are you being compensated to argue about this? Because this is the BS that a fossil fuel funded right wing think tank operative would say.

 

[OddTrader]

Just learned a bit of the followings today.

It seems we don't really know where the CO2 goes Yet!?

So the whole issue about CO2 could be still a Mystery???!

Especially we don't really know the rate of removing CO2 by various sinks!!!?

We couldn't measure the removal rates!?

Maybe the different sinks mentioned below can sink/consume as much CO2 as possible by creating more natural hurricanes or something (rains? winds?), just like a re-balancing process to reset the overall CO2 back to a reasonable level as considered by the Nature?!

Winds might be useful for helping CO2/etc to flow from a high density location to a low density location?!

??? Just 2 cents!

Where Does The CO2 Go? The Mystery Of The Missing Sinks
By News Staff | February 1st 2009

Picture a tree in the forest. The tree "inhales" carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, transforming that greenhouse gas into the building materials and energy it needs to grow its branches and leaves.

By removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the tree serves as an indispensable "sink," or warehouse, for carbon that, in tandem with Earth's other trees, plants and the ocean, helps reduce rising levels of carbon dioxide in the air that contribute to global warming.

http://www.science20.com/news_releases/where_does_co2_go_mystery_missing_sinks

Denning outlined the six different ways carbon dioxide sinks can develop on land:

-- Carbon dioxide fertilization, a process often prominent in land areas, happens when more carbon dioxide in the air stimulates photosynthesis to produce a temporary "bump" in the growth rates of plant life.

-- Agricultural abandonment occurs where once-deforested land formerly used as family farms is abandoned, allowing forests to re-grow into terrestrial carbon dioxide sinks.

-- Forest fire suppression, the aggressive extinguishing of forest fires that has led to preservation of more wooded areas than existed 100 years ago, saves trees that pull carbon dioxide from the air for growth.

-- Woody encroachment occurs when cattle graze on grass but leave behind carbon dioxide-absorbing woody shrubs that accumulate over land ranges throughout the western U.S. and elsewhere.

-- Boreal, or northern, warming takes place in northern latitude forests that are experiencing longer frost-free growing seasons due to global warming, allowing more woody growth and more absorption of carbon dioxide.

-- Lastly, carbon dioxide sinks are created when nitrogen in agricultural fertilizer or nitrogen oxide from car emissions dissolves into clouds, spreads for hundreds of miles on vegetation with rainfall, and acts in tandem with carbon dioxide fertilization to accelerate plant growth.

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory will help scientists locate and characterize areas experiencing these biological processes.

"The future behavior of carbon dioxide sinks is one of the most uncertain things in predicting climate in the 21st century," said Denning. "Mapping today's sinks will allow us to measure how much of the carbon budget is controlled by carbon dioxide intake from ocean mixing, versus carbon dioxide fertilization, versus forest re-growth, etc. If we can determine that current land sinks are dominated by carbon dioxide fertilization, it would buy us more time to develop alternative energy and other mitigation measures."

Past attempts by researchers to measure terrestrial carbon dioxide were limited by an inability to account for the different ages of forests or how disturbances to the forests have affected their ability to absorb carbon dioxide. Similar attempts to measure carbon dioxide in human-managed ecosystems like cropland, pastures, golf courses and suburban landscapes are also difficult because such areas are so varied and numerous.

"We're expecting the Orbiting Carbon Observatory to allow us to identify the precise geographic locations of these ‘missing' carbon dioxide-absorbing areas as well as the make-up of the sinks and the rate at which they soak up carbon dioxide," said Wofsy. "The efficiency of a sink and its location with respect to that of sources emitting carbon dioxide has critical implications for our ability to regulate carbon dioxide in global efforts to offset the well-documented global climate warming trend. We're anticipating a big step forward on this front with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory's help."

For more information on the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/oco .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint

Measuring carbon footprints

An individual's, nation's, or organization's carbon footprint can be measured by undertaking a GHG emissions assessment or other calculative activities denoted as carbon accounting. Once the size of a carbon footprint is known, a strategy can be devised to reduce it, e.g. by technological developments, better process and product management, changed Green Public or Private Procurement (GPP), carbon capture, consumption strategies, carbon offsetting and others.

Several free online carbon footprint calculators exist,[6][7] including a few supported by publicly available peer-reviewed data and calculations including the University of California, Berkeley's CoolClimate Network research consortium and CarbonStory.[8][9][10] These websites ask you to answer more or less detailed questions about your diet, transportation choices, home size, shopping and recreational activities, usage of electricity, heating, and heavy appliances such as dryers and refrigerators, and so on. The website then estimates your carbon footprint based on your answers to these questions. A systematic literature review was conducted to objectively determine the best way to calculate individual/household carbon footprints. This review identified 13 calculation principles and subsequently used the same principles to evaluate the 15 most popular online carbon footprint calculators. A recent study’s results by Carnegie Mellon's Christopher Weber found that the calculation of carbon footprints for products is often filled with large uncertainties. The variables of owning electronic goods such as the production, shipment, and previous technology used to make that product, can make it difficult to create an accurate carbon footprint. It is important to question, and address the accuracy of Carbon Footprint techniques, especially due to its overwhelming popularity.[11]

Carbon Footprints can be reduced through the development of alternative projects, such as solar and wind energy, which are environment friendly, renewable resources, or reforestation, the restocking of existing forests or woodlands that have previously been depleted. These examples are known as Carbon Offsetting, the counteracting of carbon dioxide emissions with an equivalent reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.[12]

The main influences on carbon footprints include population, economic output, and energy and carbon intensity of the economy.[13] These factors are the main targets of individuals and businesses in order to decrease carbon footprints. Production creates a large carbon footprint, scholars suggest that decreasing the amount of energy needed for production would be one of the most effective ways to decrease a carbon footprint. This is due to the fact that Electricity is responsible for roughly 37% of Carbon Dioxide emissions.[14] Coal production has been refined to greatly reduce carbon emissions; since the 1980s, the amount of energy used to produce a ton of steel has decreased by 50%.

 

[WeToddDid2]

New reactor technology for fusion energy.

http://www.sciencealert.com/hydrogen-boron-nuclear-sphere-revolutionise-fusion-energy

They found that a strange-looking sphere design could be the key to achieving net-positive nuclear fusion because, surprisingly, it has the potential to generate more energy than it uses.

The key difference, aside from its shape, is that this nuclear sphere would fuse hydrogen and boron, rather than hydrogen isotopes such as deuterium and tritium. And it uses lasers to heat the core up to 200 times hotter than the centre of the Sun.

If the team's calculations are correct, the hydrogen-boron reactor device could be built and producing net-positive energy way before any of the reactors currently being tested reach completion.

Even better, the hydrogen-boron reaction produces no neutrons, and therefore doesn't create any radioactive waste as a byproduct.

"It is a most exciting thing to see these reactions confirmed in recent experiments and simulations," says lead researcher Heinrich Hora, from the University of New South Wales in Australia.

 

[jem]

you are such a troll. these are real climate science degrees. you have no basis for saying he is not qualified other than the fact you are a troll who hates anyone who has a different opinions.


James Edward Kamis is a Geologist and AAPG member of 41 years and who has always been fascinated by the connection between Geology and Climate. Years of research and observation have convinced him that the Earth’s Heat Flow Engine, which drives the outer crustal plates, is also an important driver of the Earth’s climate.

He received a BS in Geology from Northern Illinois University in 1973 and an MS in Geology from Idaho State University in 1976

HE'S CLEARLY AN UNQUALIFIED INDUSTRY WHORE and the piece is shit, AND YOU KNOW IT......LIAR

Jem, are you being compensated to argue about this? Because this is the BS that a fossil fuel funded right wing think tank operative would say.

 

[futurecurrents]

you are such a troll. these are real climate science degrees. you have no basis for saying he is not qualified other than the fact you are a troll who hates anyone who has a different opinions.


James Edward Kamis is a Geologist and AAPG member of 41 years and who has always been fascinated by the connection between Geology and Climate. Years of research and observation have convinced him that the Earth’s Heat Flow Engine, which drives the outer crustal plates, is also an important driver of the Earth’s climate.

He received a BS in Geology from Northern Illinois University in 1973 and an MS in Geology from Idaho State University in 1976

"BS" jerm, you DO know that's not as good as a doctorate right. Of course you do.

GEOLOGY jerm, you DO know that's not climate science right ? Of course you do.

RETIRED

WORKED FOR OIL COMPANIES jerm, you DO know that means he is biased right?

NOT A CLIMATOLOGIST So you know he's not an expert in these matters right? Yes you do.


IT'S NOT PUBLISHED IN A PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL, IT'S ON HIS OWN WEBPAGE so it has no credibility

You know this also.

But still you put this out there as if it's real science. IT ISN'T and either you know it and are a liar, or you are much dumber than I thought you were. Which you are not.

You are just a fucking liar.

Are you being compensated to lie like this ?

 

[OddTrader]

Jul 2015

Flawed NASA study: Pacific Ocean Warming Related to Volcanic ...
https://climatechangedispatch.com/f...-ocean-warming-related-to-volcanic-heat-flow/ - Cached - Similar
14 Jul 2015 ... Here we explain that the root cause of the 2000-2015 western Pacific Ocean warming is increased heat flow from deep ocean volcanoes, hydrothermal ... Years of research / observation have convinced him that the Earth's Heat Flow Engine, which drives the outer crustal plates, is also an important driver of ...


https://climatechangedispatch.com/f...-ocean-warming-related-to-volcanic-heat-flow/

According to researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), man-made global warming has been “hiding” in a deep and limited portion of the Pacific Ocean since the year 2000, thereby explaining why worldwide atmospheric temperatures have not risen during the 2000-2015 time frame.

Wasn’t it just this last June that NASA’s Gavin Schmidt from the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that after “adjusting” historical worldwide temperature data there has not been a global warming pause? So which NASA group are we to believe? Has there been a warming pause or not? Has the heat energy from man-made CO2 warmed air been somehow transported into a limited portion of the deep Pacific Ocean or not?

Conflicting statements by the two different NASA entities brings into focus several political and scientific questions. This article will address one of the scientific questions, specifically the root cause of western Pacific Ocean warming during the 2000-2015 time period. Discussions of the other questions arising from this NASA infighting such as the nature / validity of the global warming pause, NASA’s ever diminishing scientific credibility, and NASA’s apparent inability to communicate internally will be covered later.

Nov 2017

NASA: Additional Geologic Forces Behind West Antarctic Ice Melt ...
https://principia-scientific.org/nasa-additional-geologic-forces-behind-west-antarctic-ice-melt/ - Cached
13 Nov 2017 ... More than 12 years of research/observation have convinced him that the Earth's Heat Flow Engine, which drives the outer crustal plates, is an important ... https:// climate.nasa.gov/news/2361/study-mass-gains-of-antarctic-ice-sheet-greater- than-losses/ NASA Study from 2015 Points Out Difference Between ...


https://principia-scientific.org/nasa-additional-geologic-forces-behind-west-antarctic-ice-melt/

Final thoughts

In a broad sense, the NASA research conclusions represent a huge victory for the many freelance writers who dared to oppose the supposedly so-called settled global warming science. These writers were not intimidated, instead, courageously persevered the storm by consistently putting forth plausible, fact-based alternate views.

A select few of these freelance writers also provided dissenting scientists with open website platforms, which have allowed them to present their alternative views and climate theories. The Climate Change Dispatch website is at the top of this list. Freelance writing, which played a vital role in forming the United States of America, is still alive and well.

About the author: James Edward Kamis is a retired Geologist with 42 years of experience, a B.S. in Geology from Northern Illinois University (1973), and M.S. in geology from Idaho State University (1977) who has always been fascinated by the connection between Geology and Climate. More than 12 years of research/observation have convinced him that the Earth’s Heat Flow Engine, which drives the outer crustal plates, is an important driver of the Earth’s climate. Plate Climatology Theory (plateclimatology.com) was formally introduced on October 7, 2014, and published at the annual 2016 American Metrological Society Conference in New Orleans on January 13, 2016 (see here). James has authored more than fifty Climate Change Dispatch articles discussing the relationship between geological forces and climate.

Mysterious geothermal 'mantle plume' under Antarctica is heating its ice sheet, NASA study confirms

* The mantle plume is a geothermal heat source that sits beneath the ice sheet
* It's not new, but could help explain how lakes and rivers form under the ice
* According to NASA, likely formed 50-110 million years ago, before the ice sheet

By Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com

Published: 10:36 AEDT, 8 November 2017

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...antle-plume-Antarctica-heating-ice-sheet.html

‘I thought it was crazy,’ said Hélène Seroussi of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, of when she first heard the idea.

‘I didn’t see how we could have that amount of heat and still have ice on top of it.’

 

[jem]

you crazy demented ignorant troll.
geology is one of the fields of study within "climate science".
Not only can you look it up by going to google.com...you would think that would almost be self evident or obvious to anyone but a troll.

now if you wish to call the guy biased fine.. if getting paid creates a biased scientist than almost all you guys are biased too.

but acting like a geologist can not be a climate scientists is far more ignorant than I would have expected... even from you.

finally if you look it up... a phd is not required to be a climatologist on the websites I reviewed.

decades of experience and a masters degree would seem to make this guy far more qualified than most.

 

[futurecurrents]

you crazy demented ignorant troll.
geology is one of the fields of study within "climate science".
Not only can you look it up by going to google.com...you would think that would almost be self evident or obvious to anyone but a troll.

now if you wish to call the guy biased fine.. if getting paid creates a biased scientist than almost all you guys are biased too.

but acting like a geologist can not be a climate scientists is far more ignorant than I would have expected... even from you.

finally if you look it up... a phd is not required to be a climatologist on the websites I reviewed.

decades of experience and a masters degree would seem to make this guy far more qualified than most.

Typical crap source from you. You can't lie without them. Not even peer reviewed. By someone with a lowly BS in geo, that's an industry whore.

And you wonder why I call you a liar.

 

[OddTrader]

When placing a very large ice block on the surface of a much larger icy base, it would be easy to simulate and observe how various forms and ways for man-made changes of temperature surrounding the ice block affect the melting shape and form of the ice block.

The breaking off of ice shelf into two pieces, no matter where the starting point is, should be almost impossible due to mainly/solely the (atmospheric) changes of its surrounding temperatures.

Could above possibility a common-sense and logical deduction?!

Perhaps we Do need to see a simulated physically constructed experiment to provide and prove a fairly similar result equivalent to the breaking off of ice shelf! ?

Otherwise, it could be still a huge mystery to be explained scientifically.

I'd be very surprised to learn that if no such kind of experiments or reports has been known/ published to the public Yet! ?

 

[gwb-trading]

It's Colder Than Mars Out There
The arctic freeze over the United States this week is producing the kind of frigid temperatures typical for the red planet.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/cold-weather-united-states-mars/549386/