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2008/5/9

A little global warming confusion

@ 02:50 AM (2 months, 16 days ago)

One of my favorite web sites to read is science daily .com (all one word), while "digging" around in the archives I noticed that a few of the releases were on the subject of climate and by default "global warming" I also noted that they were very contridictory to each other, I cut a few of the headlines and put them together, its all kinda funny when you read them....riff

Absence Of Clouds Caused Pre-human Supergreenhouse Periods

ScienceDaily (Apr. 11, 2008) — In a world without human-produced pollution, biological productivity controls cloud formation and may be the lever that caused supergreenhouse episodes during the Cetaceous and Eocene, according to Penn State paleoclimatologists.(So now all life causes global warming...hmmmm)

'Burpless' Grass Cuts Methane Gas From Cattle, May Help Reduce Global Warming

ScienceDaily (May 8, 2008) — Grass that may help tackle global warming by cutting the level of methane given off by cows is being developed by scientists reports the latest issue of the Society of Chemical Industry’s (SCI) magazine Chemistry & Industry.

Scientists at Gramina, a joint biotech venture by Australia’s Molecular Plant Breeding Cooperative Research Centre and New Zealand rural services group PGG Wrightson Genomics, are developing a grass that will not only cut the amount of methane cows burp up when chewing the cud but also grow in hotter climes.

This means that farmers should be able to maintain dairy herds’ productivity and profitability in the face of a changing climate, while cutting down their gaseous burps and reducing their contribution to global warming.

ScienceDaily (May 8, 2008) — Computer analyses of global climate have consistently overstated warming in Antarctica, concludes new research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Ohio State University. The study can help scientists improve computer models and determine if Earth's southernmost continent will warm significantly this century, a major research question because of Antarctica's potential impact on global sea-level rise.(No now it's cow farts, and belches, that are contributing to global warming....remember the idiot that wanted the "world" to quit eating beef and get our milk from rats.....all in the name of global warming...lol)

Stressed Seaweed Contributes To Cloudy Coastal Skies, Study Suggests

ScienceDaily (May 7, 2008) — Scientists at The University of Manchester have helped to identify that the presence of large amounts of seaweed in coastal areas can influence the climate.A new international study has found that large brown seaweeds, when under stress, release large quantities of inorganic iodine into the coastal atmosphere, where it may contribute to cloud formation..(Oh boy, NOW its seaweed...geez...lol)

Ozone Hole Recovery May Reshape Southern Hemisphere Climate Change And Amplify Antarctic Warming

ScienceDaily (Apr. 24, 2008) — A full recovery of the stratospheric ozone hole could modify climate change in the Southern Hemisphere and even amplify Antarctic warming, according to scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.(OK now im confused, didn't we change our freon because of ozone depletion, werent we all gonna die of skin cancer because of the ozone depletion?...now that were "fixing" the ozone its causing global warming to speed up?....*sigh*)

Black Carbon Pollution Emerges As Major Player In Global Warming

ScienceDaily (Mar. 24, 2008) — Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing estimates, according to scientists in an upcoming review article in the journal Nature Geoscience. (OK were back to manmade stuff again)

Carbon Dioxide Did Not End The Last Ice Age, Study Says

ScienceDaily (Oct. 2, 2007) — Carbon dioxide did not cause the end of the last ice age, a new study in Science suggests, contrary to past inferences from ice core records.(OK what did? Wooley mammoth farts, methane from dino doo doo?)

Greenhouse Gases Likely Drove Near-record U.S. Warmth In 2006

ScienceDaily (Aug. 29, 2007) — Greenhouse gases likely accounted for over half of the widespread warmth across the continental United States in 2006, according to a new study that will be published 5 September in Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union.....(But ...but...isnt THE Green house gas of the global warminuts carbon dioxide? But they just said it didnt end the last ice age....confused yet?)

New Clues To Ozone Depletion

ScienceDaily (Jul. 27, 2007) — Large quantities of ozone-depleting chemicals have been discovered in the Antarctic atmosphere by researchers from the University of Leeds, the University of East Anglia, and the British Antarctic Survey.

The team of atmospheric chemists carried out an 18-month study of the make-up of the lowest part of the earth's atmosphere on the Brunt Ice Shelf, about 20 km from the Weddell Sea. They found high concentrations of halogens - bromine and iodine oxides -- which persist throughout the period when there is sunlight in Antarctica (August through May). A big surprise to the science team was the large quantities of iodine oxide, since this chemical has not been detected in the Arctic.

The source of the halogens is natural -- sea-salt in the case of bromine, and in the case of iodine, almost certainly bright orange algae that coat the underside of the sea ice around the continent. (So what is causing the ozone depletion which will give us all skin cancer if we destroy it, and worsen global warming if we fix it....was it freon and hairspray propellant, or was it orange ice slime.....come on guys this is ridiculous)

The Woes Of Kilimanjaro: Don't Blame Global Warming

ScienceDaily (Jun. 12, 2007) — The "snows" of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro inspired the title of an iconic American short story, but now its dwindling icecap is being cited as proof for human-induced global warming.

However, two researchers writing in the July-August edition of American Scientist magazine say global warming has nothing to do with the decline of Kilimanjaro's ice, and using the mountain in northern Tanzania as a "poster child" for climate change is simply inaccurate.

"There are dozens, if not hundreds, of photos of midlatitude glaciers you could show where there is absolutely no question that they are declining in response to the warming atmosphere," said climatologist Philip Mote, a University of Washington research scientist.

But in the tropics -- particularly on Kilimanjaro -- processes are at work that are far different from those that have diminished glacial ice in temperate regions closer to the poles, he said.

Mote and Georg Kaser, a glaciologist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, write in American Scientist that the decline in Kilimanjaro's ice has been going on for more than a century and that most of it occurred before 1953, while evidence of atmospheric warming there before 1970 is inconclusive.(over a century ago.hmmmm....so just when did mankind become the cause?....Did they OK this with Al Gore?....I smell bullshit, and I think Al Bore is in the fertilizer Bizz....lol)

Ok thats enough...I spent less than 15 minutes on ONE reputable site and look what I found (dont get me wrong. sciencedaily is a great site, they just report the news and dont offer opinion or bias, just facts as the scientist report to them)lol...I could go on and on, but you get the idea...lol....riff