global warming: worse than we think

...If we accept the truth, and start to prepare now for the inevitable, we can maybe save a lot of lives.


Come gather 'round People
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

The Times They are a-changin'.
Bob Dylan

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

Charles Schultz

In his letter to the Guardian, Corbyn - who might be a Physicist - but isn't necessarily a Biologist makes the following point:

"The global warmers' claim that current extra CO2 causes warming which gets dangerously magnified through the greenhouse effect of extra water vapour in the atmosphere, consequent to the temperature rise, also fails. The sea absorbs extra CO2. Furthermore, increased transpiration-cooling by enhanced growth of plants, which is caused by extra CO2, cancels out the extra greenhouse warming of that same CO2. Increased greenhouse heating due to doubling CO2 is 3.7 watts per sq metre. This is negated by about the same amount of enhanced transpiration-cooling of plants, all of which grow faster in extra CO2. Therefore there is no CO2 driven net heat flow and surface temperature rise. Temperature and climate change in our epoch is therefore driven by other factors, especially solar particle and magnetic effects."

Transpiration-cooling is caused by the use of energy by transpiration of water from a plant through its leaves.

The above process of enhanced transpiration cooling is only true to a point - where there is adequate water supplies for the plant. If transpiration increases beyond that point a plant will close its stomata or take other measures to limit water loss by transpiration, and beyond that point the plant will start to wilt, and die - and certainly will not have increased growth.

In water-stressed areas, increased air temperatures will NOT lead to increased transpiration or increased plant growth (even if there is increased CO2) but will lead to increased plant death.

This is why we have deserts in areas of the world where air temperatures and water availability is lower than adequate for plants...

And that's the reality of the situation at the moment - many areas are water stressed and rather than increased plant growth there will be increased plant death...

Million kilowatt generating unit put into operation



Huaneng Yuhuan Power Plant's number one electricity generating unit has produced a load of 1 million kilowatts, with all parameters working normally. The power plant has now reached the expected production volume and will soon be put into commercial use.
The Huaneng Yuhuan Power Plant is a major national project, and is the first domestic power plant to have a 1-million kilowatt generating unit. It intends to build a group of four coal power units, each with 1 million kilowatt installed capacity.

Does this kind of article really surprise anyone?.

The global warming argument is behind us and should have been long ago.
We knew that prehistoric volcanic activity created carbon dioxide which fed prehistoric forests, plankton in oceans absorbed carbon dioxide all through the same processes that nature follows today.
There has been no change.
Except.
Volcanic activity has continued just as desertification is greater than before. Deforestation has caused enormous bio loss and to top it all off humans have already burnt 40% of all prehistoric carbon, a carbon that was in safe storage. Today less than 35% of ancient forests survive
The planet is no longer able to trap the carbon dioxide that is in the atmosphere, there are insufficient carbon sinks, few swamps and fewer forests than ever in the earths history. While the sea is so acidic and its currents slowed that life can no longer survive in the abundance that was once normal. A level of biodiversity that ensured that nature could replenish carbon storage within the oceanic crust.
The wake up call will be accompanied by a world audit of present day carbon sinks and present day fossil fuel burning.
If a rise in global temperature was not enough to convince the skeptics, perhaps by comparing these earth changes will make them silent.

However would reducing green house gas now make any long term difference?

If pollution were reduced the air would be clean and clear allowing the sun to heat the surface by 4% more. This in turn would increase evaporation as indicated by global; dimming experts which they say would in turn create more atmospheric water vapor which is far more insulating than carbon dioxide.
As the temperature of the ocean heats up frozen methane at 24 times more damaging than co2 will bubble up from the ocean as methane released from the permafrost’s adds to the atmospheric mix.
Cutting industrial pollution is a rapid pull back, its not an answer it’s a disaster..
A nuclear war might do the trick.
It is one of the very few things that humans can actually achieve that will cool the planet and offer a solution to the problems humans cause,.
The possibility is that widespread nuclear war will send survivers back to the stone age, an ice age and for many thousands of years humans will have to develop an alternate society.
However one based upon god the creator and economic development will put us on track to repeat the same mistakes.