Yeh, volcanoes are always a good fall back position the spinners.
WR.. I'm have to say that I'm a bit confused about what your position on GW is, and what needs to be done about it (if anything)?
I posted my opinion that there is a plausible, and natural, rationale for the overall historical trend of GW, and posited that any recent spikes over the past century might just be due to the overall growth of the human population over the past several hundred years:
thuto.org
And minus killing off 2/3 of all human beings on this planet, and disposing of their bodies via incineration (so their rotting bodies don't produce even more methane), we may have to take some proactive measures to reduce green-house gas emissions, rather than merely reducing our personal production of it.
Hence, the reason I posted the information on John Martin's research and proposal for creating phytoplankton blooms to soak up some of those gases.
Humanity is on the threshold of a century of extraordinary bounty, courtesy of global climate change. That's the opinion of Robert Balling, former scientific adviser to the Greening Earth Society, a lobbying arm of the power industry founded by the Western Fuels Association.
Well, Mr. Balling is being a bit foolish, IMO. One of the greatest things we must FEAR from additional warming of the oceans, is the possibility that various methane hydrate deposits may start to melt. There is historical evidence that massive releases of these deposits may have altered previous periods of paleo-climatogy:
The researchers say increased bottom water temperatures could mobilize or release significant amounts of methane hydrate in shallow waters. According to some current estimates, there are about 10,000 billion tons of methane stored beneath the ocean and on continents. In comparison, the contribution of humans to the atmosphere's inventory of greenhouse gases by fossil-fuel burning amounts to about 200 billion tons of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide. If even a small portion of the stored methane were to escape into the atmosphere, the resulting greenhouse warming would be catastrophic.
whoi.edu
economist.com
Tectonic dependent release of Methand Hydrates:
jhu.edu
It's pretty clear that the greatest risk for catastrophic and uncontrollable GW lies within the oceans from Methane Hydrate releases.
Thus, it makes sense that the oceans should be looked upon as the target we must focus upon for a resolution, given their tremendous role in regulating and capturing greenhouse gases.
So forgive me if I'm a bit confused as to why you didn't comment on the information I posted related to fertilizing the ocean to promote phytoplankton growth and CO2 binding..
Hawk
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