In other words, the Earth is still thawing out from the "beyond nuclear winter" from the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs.
No real surprise there.
As far as greenhouse gases go, I remember reading somewhere recently that CO2 greenhouse effect actually saturates because there is only so much energy available at the 10.2 micron line for CO2 to absorb, and something like 90% of that energy is already absorbed at 100ppm CO2, which is well below current levels.
Further, plants basically starve at 200ppm CO2, and grow much better with higher CO2 concentrations, enough that greenhouses often burn propane or other hydrocarbons specifically to increase the indoor CO2 level.
I know JMG has no answer on this, but perhaps someone in the rest of the commentariat can either support or refute this?
At this point, I suspect that the academic climatologists are mostly frauds.
Vast gatherings of private jets at climate conferences does not help that appearance.
There's the problem of eventually depleting fossil fuels, but the one thing fossil fuels cannot do is cause a runaway greenhouse effect.
This is simple stoichiometry and biology.
All of the carbon bound up in fossil fuels was removed from the atmosphere using photosynthesis eons ago.
Since all of that carbon came from the atmosphere, closing the carbon cycle and returning it to the atmosphere cannot cause a runaway greenhouse effect.
If it could, that effect would have already happened, long before our species appeared on this planet.
This almost feels to me like some kind of Cult of Progress insanity, but I'm not quite sure how to outline it.
PS: You must be on some kind of right track to attract the ongoing attacks. CloudFlare is being extremely annoying to Tor Browser visitors who have JavaScript disabled. Other Dreamwidth blogs aren't currently affected.
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Asteroid impacts 65,000,000 years later...
Date: 2022-05-15 05:57 am (UTC)In other words, the Earth is still thawing out from the "beyond nuclear winter" from the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs. No real surprise there.
As far as greenhouse gases go, I remember reading somewhere recently that CO2 greenhouse effect actually saturates because there is only so much energy available at the 10.2 micron line for CO2 to absorb, and something like 90% of that energy is already absorbed at 100ppm CO2, which is well below current levels. Further, plants basically starve at 200ppm CO2, and grow much better with higher CO2 concentrations, enough that greenhouses often burn propane or other hydrocarbons specifically to increase the indoor CO2 level. I know JMG has no answer on this, but perhaps someone in the rest of the commentariat can either support or refute this?
At this point, I suspect that the academic climatologists are mostly frauds. Vast gatherings of private jets at climate conferences does not help that appearance. There's the problem of eventually depleting fossil fuels, but the one thing fossil fuels cannot do is cause a runaway greenhouse effect. This is simple stoichiometry and biology. All of the carbon bound up in fossil fuels was removed from the atmosphere using photosynthesis eons ago. Since all of that carbon came from the atmosphere, closing the carbon cycle and returning it to the atmosphere cannot cause a runaway greenhouse effect. If it could, that effect would have already happened, long before our species appeared on this planet.
This almost feels to me like some kind of Cult of Progress insanity, but I'm not quite sure how to outline it.
PS: You must be on some kind of right track to attract the ongoing attacks. CloudFlare is being extremely annoying to Tor Browser visitors who have JavaScript disabled. Other Dreamwidth blogs aren't currently affected.