Monday, November 10, 2008

I am greatly worried about Global Warming.

The Greenhouse Gases that people are talking about are multiple in number. The greatest Greenhouse Gas is Water Vapor followed by CO2 and Methane and Refrigerant Gases. Water Vapor increasing in the atmosphere creates more heating which can result in more water vapor rising into the sky. Methane increasing in the sky creates more heating which results in more methane being released from melting permafrost. Natural processes can now take over the continued heating of the Earth. That is a very frightening prospect. CO2 is rapidly increasing because of cut down forests and expanding deserts (heated drying land appears to release CO2, as well as dying vegetation not being there to absorb CO2 and release Oxygen. WE are not going to run out of Oxygen for a million years, but we are sure seening a lot more CO2 now. You can easily see the potential for run away global heating. If you look at the interglacial period charts. They show how rapidly the Earth can heat to reach peak temperature. The decline is initially quite abrupt, too showing that there is some sort of blockage of sunlight at the peak of heating. I would suspect very thick rainclouds (Dark cumulus types) blocking out the sun or reflecting sunlight away from the Earth without allowing it to warm the surface of the planet. We all know that visible sunlight does not carry heat from the Sun to the Earth but when the light hits the earth or oceans it imparts energy to those substances and thus creates infrared heat to warm the planet. Years ago, a significant portion of that created heat on the surface of the planet would radiate back out into space. But with the increase of Greenhouse Gases, it is being sent right back to Earth (The so called Blanket Effect) and the planet is getting warmer. Most of that heat will be stored in the oceans and if too much heat is stored there, we could see all hell break loose and large parts of the planet will become uninhabitable. If that happens, you might want to move to Alaska. The Navy took me up there several times. If things get too hot down south, I will move there provided I can talk my wife into moving there. She wants to be close to the children and grandchildren so I doubt that I can convince her.

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Born Chicago. Lived: Palos Heights Chicago, Illinois; American Samoa; Mexico; Escondido and San Diego, California; and then I finally graduated from High School. Subsequently, 12 years in the Navy took me all over the world.