Scientists In Alaska Find Mammoth Amounts Of Carbon In The Warming Permafrost
This seems to be a valid item that does need investigation, I object to the statement that the bacteria starting up exudes "climate changing gasses like carbon dioxide and methane" Propaganda mixed with science....yuck..
Ok, I read this statist propaganda. I was tempted to conclude it was propaganda simply because of the source and not read it. (Of course, it was. NPR never lets me down with their irrational spewing.)
"The bacteria started converting the carbon that's in dead plants and animals into gases that cause climate change: carbon dioxide and methane."
Lying looter statist horse rubbish. Unproven garbage.
NPR is a complete waste of time. Shut 'em down. No more taxpayer funding.
Al Gore famously used this correlation leaving off the fact that it appeared to show that CO2 reacted to warming rather than the other way areound.
AGW advocates explain this by saying that that the warming releases CO2 which then increases the warming -- except that describes a feedback loop and the system should destroy itself the first time it happens.
Oh, I remember now...can you say: Grand Solar Minimum?
With slightly warmer weather, and some much needed carbon...maybe we could grow crops in Alaska while the midwest and deep south freezes over?
land got its name because it was once not so cold there.
My guess is that we were in a much closer orbit to our sun. A 90K year cycle from almost circular to and elips...which is where we are now.
Two other things to consider is the earths weight distribution, (weighted axis) or a more lopsided orbit bringing the earth to a much higher orbit relative to the sun. Our orbit is Not on a level plain and goes through many changes during our orbital cycle which I propose is a direct result of our sun and solar system traveling above then below the galactic plain.
I read a recent article that explained mathematically there would be only a minor rise in sea level but certainly not the kind of rise al gorsky lies about.
Besides, who says it "Wasn't" always ice and snow free...meaning without glaciers or surrounded by frozen sea ice during summer months.
Science has to realize that the earth was not always the same as we witness today or even during our recorded history which is a geological short period of time.
However, the oceans would rise more than two hundred feet if the antarctic 6.4 million cubic miles of ice above sea level were to melt.
6.4x10^6 cubic miles = 6.4x10^6 sq miles one mile thick of above sea level ice.
The oceans have an area of 139.7x10^6 sq miles.
So (6.4x10^6 cubic miles) / (139.7x10^6 sq miles) =
0.045812 of a mile.
(5280 feet per mile) x (0.045812 mile) = 241.88736 feet or so but somewhat less due to the lesser volume of water due to the density difference between ice and water.
How can a wobbling planet due to changing center of mass move out of the ecliptic plane? Even the other planets in the ecliptic plane cannot gravitationally move the Earth out of the plane. Pluto's orbit does not lie in the ecliptic plane due to being an object from the Kuiper belt and not formed from the original disk of matter around the Sun..
Try this yourself with an elastic string (ping pong ball) on a ball with the string in hand start the ball orbiting your hand. Now move your hand forward and gradually up and down an imagined plain and you can watch the balls orbit change.
As far as our weighted axis...do you not think the addition of the great lakes after the glacial melt or the gigantic Chinese reservoirs...maybe even some tectonic shifting just might cause a axis change?
I have also read articles that have found evidence of ground water migration which would be the result and cause of our tilt...so to speak.
The so called tilt is only in respect to some angular parameters in relation to the sun. I have yet to find that we Ever rotated on the so called geographical perfect north and south poles...even our geographically perfect equator is never in the same spot as we orbit the sun.
which keeps a body in motion when not being
forced. Use the old Einstein train thought experiment. On the train the moving ball on the string will not change orbit as the man moves with the train. Both the man and the ball have a constant a velocity due to inertia in the direction of the trains motion. The orbit in this case is due to the force applied to the string but does is not affected by the motion of the man in the direction of the train's constant velocity and the balls motion normal to the orbit in the train's direction. Your orbit changes due to a change in the direction of the force on the string.
Of course there are many unknown factors and forces involved in order to produce a model that would accurately represent our exact path and what is causing our orbital path to change but it's the only thing that makes a bit of sense to me.
The problem is we haven't been around long enough to observe and measure the entire cycle although we could probably make some pretty good guesses.
Just wish I had the where with all and time to build a model to demonstrate what might be happening.
Even if I could build a physical model, it wouldn't explain all the forces involved but I could demonstrate why our orbit around the sun changes as we move up and down the galactic plain.
But understand this, gravity is just an attractive force, we can measure it but we don't know what it is exactly but electromagnetism, and resonant fields are attractive forces also and seem to be much stronger over vast distances also. So I expect our understanding of gravity to change and it's importance and it's role in the cosmos will likely change too.
Remember that during the last ice age, the sea level was over 300 feet less than today.
Also, during the ice ages, there were large areas of uncovered tundra where the large animals grazed.
http://www.ancient-origins.net/artifa...
http://www.ancientdestructions.com/or...
and the famous Peri Reis map:
http://www.ancientdestructions.com/pi...
So, how did all these map people know what was there? Especially since the last time it was Ice Free by science, was a few million years ago, and had Dinos family and friends waltzing around it.....
Of course as the Oceans melt, or ice melts, trapped CO2 is released. So, High CO2 is CORRELATED with Warming, but may clearly not be causative.
Especially if are earth was covered with a LOT of water. LOL
maybe the reason the tunnel they are walking through and looking at is warming because they took out all of the dirt. another government project giving incorrect information. would they say the same thing if they couldn't see into the mountain so they would be someplace else? what a joke!!!
The Eco-Freaks have been warning us about catastrophes for many years. I'll give them credit for ingenuity.
Help, save us, Al Gore!
Help, save us, Paris Peace Accord!
Save us from all those bacteria farts!