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To: A.J. Mullen who wrote (7683)	11/4/2006 2:23:30 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12247

<The delay in the effect of anthropogenic Co2 is largely due to absorption in the ocean, and the fact the absorption is not permanent> Unless the temperature of the ocean increased, the CO2 would stay dissolved or remain in balance with new CO2 dissolving. But there's a constant drain in the ocean as chlorophyll plants in the ocean gobble the dissolved CO2 and begin the ocean food chain, which mostly ends up in oceanic sediment, trundling to the subduction zones. There was a huge chlorophyll zone near NZ recently. Plants just love the bonus CO2 they are getting. Maybe you just mean the level of CO2 we are emitting now is going to gradually fill the ocean and once it's full, the CO2 will simply build up in the atmosphere. After 100 years, I'd say the levels in the ocean and atmosphere have reached a steady state with increases as we increase production further. If production leveled off now, I dare say the levels in the atmosphere and ocean would level off in a year or three too. The size of the ocean and amount of oceanic plant life and food chain is vast and I find it hard to believe we are managing to fill that up. I prefer neither global warming as a challenge, nor war. I like sentient cyberspace as a challenge and the prevention of a reglaciation. I can live with some warming and sea level rise, but another ice age onset would be very bad news. If Dutch people think water coming over a dyke is bad, they should think what a kilometre of ice on top of them would be like. At least they could float on ocean and catch fish. Mqurice

To: A.J. Mullen who wrote (7683)	11/4/2006 11:27:04 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12247

Ashley, Global Warming is really having an impact in NZ. All the heat from down here seems to have gone up your way to where the Greenhouse Effect is working. It must be the Gulf Stream taking all our heat. Now, we have icebergs invading and I guess glaciers will come racing down the valleys [here they come niwascience.co.nz ] to take over by land as well. Iceberg invasion and photos here: news.com.au We can't afford SUVs and lots of motorways to do our bit for the Greenhouse Effect because we spend the little money we get on dumb things like more dole bludging layabouts, treating fat people and other self-destructive types for medical problems, enforcing random rules on each other such as "altering vegetation without a permit" - I think we are still allowed to mow lawns, but maybe my lifetime pass for that has been revoked, and flying around the world attending End of the World Greenhouse Effect conferences to get our "Green Miles" up to our "Food Mile" level to balance our carbon credits. Apparently our forests are very bad for Greenhouse Effect - which isn't surprising as everything is bad forthe Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming and OMIGODWHATABOUTTHEGRANDCHILDREN, including the birth of said grandchildren. I am not surprised that we have icebergs rattling around the coast. It's freezing. Somehow, that's going to be blamed on Global Warming. I suppose the melting of the glacier which made the icebergs is the problem and there's sooooo much glacier breakup going on that the whole southern ocean has cooled, pushing the icebergs north to where they came absorb the heat from Global Warming, melting to flood Gaia and inundate Bangladesh [I realize the sea level rise came when the icebergs entered the ocean, not when they melt]. Mqurice