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2008-04-24 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-24 03:54|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 I thought a more recent theory was that airplane com-trails were initiating excessive cloud formation, causing either global cooling through shading the earth from sunshine.... or global warming through preventing the re-radiation of sun energy back out into space.

Never mind. I'll leave it to cleverer minds than mine to figure it out.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-04-24 04:43|| 2008-04-24 04:43|| Front Page Top

#2 One of the few ways that has ever been devised to affect weather uses something more powerful than humans--microorganisms.

It was discovered that a major algae bloom in the ocean can raise the surface temperature of the water by as much as two degrees, over a wide enough area so it could raise the severity of a hurricane by 1 or maybe 2 categories.

Then if, but only if, a natural hurricane passes through the area of warmed ocean, will it be affected.

Importantly, hurricanes *lower* the surface temperature of water considerably. So the long term affects of hurricanes is cooling.

Few people remember the enormous area of "black water" on Florida's Gulf Coast, where microorganisms had so depleted the oxygen in the water that there was a massive die off of other life. To a great extent, the hurricanes that passed through the area "healed" it by lowering water temperatures so much that microorganism growth was curtailed, and the area could return to balance.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-04-24 09:31|| 2008-04-24 09:31|| Front Page Top

#3 What is needed, they said, is renewed federal backing of the research. "In terms of the stakes, I think we owe it to the taxpayers to give it our best shot," said Joseph Golden, a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

It's...for the children. As much as it takes, for as long as it takes. We'll do our part, you do yours. And keep it coming...

Posted by tu3031 2008-04-24 10:00|| 2008-04-24 10:00|| Front Page Top

#4 "What is needed, they said, is renewed federal backing of the research."

Raise your hand if you're surprised.

Thought so.

"We've got to get the funding to protect our phoney-baloney jobs!"

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-24 13:07|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-04-24 13:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually micro-organisms are the reason we have a 20% oxygen atmosphere on Planet Earth, so yes they can have a great effect.

Posted by Aussie Mike 2008-04-24 21:23|| 2008-04-24 21:23|| Front Page Top

#6 But it was a long time ago that those microorganisms gave off oxygen, Aussie Mike. Is our species likely to be able to do anything significant to affect that now?

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-04-24 21:36|| 2008-04-24 21:36|| Front Page Top

#7 REDDIT > NEWSCIENTISTS > MAN-MADE, ARTIFICIAL "GLOBAL/PLANETARY SUNSHADE" TO COOL EARTH MAY DESTROY UP TO 76% OF EARTH'S OZONE.

Also from REDDIT > SOLARSCIENCE.blogs > SUMMARY -"SUNSPOT/SOLAR CYCLE 24" Sunspots, while LATE, is still acting within the SUN's "NORMAL PARAMETERS" OF MEASURED HISTORICAL ACTIVITY. NO NEED TO PANIC = HAVE A COW, MAN, UNLESS "24"'s ACTIVS STAYS LOW OR INACTIVE THRU YEAR 2009 OR 2010, AND BEYOND.

IOW, the Perts may be WRONG about CYCLE 23 MAUNDER MINI-MAXI LEAD TIME being LONGER THAN USUAL/EXPECTED; or ARE WRONG ABOUT SUNSPOT SCHEDULING MODELS-THEORY AS PER "24"; OR ARE GENER CORRECT ABOUT "24" BUT DON'T KNOW = UNCERTAIN AS TO ITS DELAY???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-04-24 23:48|| 2008-04-24 23:48|| Front Page Top

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