Comments on: Anti-global warming party http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/04/25/anti-global-warming-party/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:39:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: C.A.B. http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/04/25/anti-global-warming-party/comment-page-1/#comment-172769 C.A.B. Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:07:51 +0000 http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/index.php/2007/04/25/anti-global-warming-party/#comment-172769 I believe that this is a hoax too. This global warming is really global climate change. Its colder in the winters and hotter in the summers not just warming. It even snowed in texas so dont tell me this is warming. For four years in a row back at my place we've had icestorms every year. We loose electric and half freeze to death. And it gets worse every year. There is no climate change. BULLCRAP. THIS IS GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE PEOPLE. I believe that this is a hoax too.
This global warming is really global climate change.
Its colder in the winters and hotter in the summers not just warming.
It even snowed in texas so dont tell me this is warming.
For four years in a row back at my place we’ve had icestorms every year.
We loose electric and half freeze to death. And it gets worse every year.
There is no climate change.
BULLCRAP.

THIS IS GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE PEOPLE.

]]> By: Brad Arnold http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2007/04/25/anti-global-warming-party/comment-page-1/#comment-1876 Brad Arnold Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:33:28 +0000 http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/index.php/2007/04/25/anti-global-warming-party/#comment-1876 If you don't know what hydrate is, you don't understand global warming: Hydrate contains twice the carbon of all fossil fuel, and whereas fossil fuel needs to be burned to emit GHG, hydrate needs only to melt. Briefly, carbon in the soil is "eaten" by microbes, and in the absence of oxygen the microbes emit methane (CH4). Some of that methane gets trapped in ice called hydrate. There is about 400 billion tons of methane trapped in permafrost hydrate (20% of the land on earth is permafrost). 50% of the surface permafrost is expected to melt by 2050, and over 90% by 2100. A release of less than 30 billion tons of methane would be like doubling the CO2 in the air. Worse, there is an estimated 10,000 billion tons of methane hydrate under the ocean. Substantial quantities of this has melted before with catastrophic results (55 million years ago-the PETM ushered in the Age of Mammals, and 250 million years ago-the "Great Dying" killed most life on earth). In other words, the carbon cycle has been upset before (possibly by volcanic eruptions), causing a chain reaction. Mankind's GHG emissions are over 30 times stronger a trigger than past severe runaway global warming events. This means the chain reaction will happen sooner, unfold faster, and therefore be much, much more severe. If you don’t know what hydrate is, you don’t understand global warming:

Hydrate contains twice the carbon of all fossil fuel, and whereas fossil fuel needs to be burned to emit GHG, hydrate needs only to melt.

Briefly, carbon in the soil is “eaten” by microbes, and in the absence of oxygen the microbes emit methane (CH4). Some of that methane gets trapped in ice called hydrate.

There is about 400 billion tons of methane trapped in permafrost hydrate (20% of the land on earth is permafrost). 50% of the surface permafrost is expected to melt by 2050, and over 90% by 2100.

A release of less than 30 billion tons of methane would be like doubling the CO2 in the air.

Worse, there is an estimated 10,000 billion tons of methane hydrate under the ocean. Substantial quantities of this has melted before with catastrophic results (55 million years ago-the PETM ushered in the Age of Mammals, and 250 million years ago-the “Great Dying” killed most life on earth).

In other words, the carbon cycle has been upset before (possibly by volcanic eruptions), causing a chain reaction. Mankind’s GHG emissions are over 30 times stronger a trigger than past severe runaway global warming events. This means the chain reaction will happen sooner, unfold faster, and therefore be much, much more severe.

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