"Can the greenhouse gasses explain why there seems to be an increase in the magnitude and frequency of earthquakes?"
I don't think there is, measured over the past 20,40,80 or 100 years, an uptick of like what you claim. Linking to a gee-neato seismic map is not factual support of your claim.
Can the greenhouse gasses explain why there is air escaping from the Earth's atmosphere?
Gasses do and have left the earth, but it has nothing to do with global warming. The Solar wind continuously blows a small part of the earths atmosphere off into space. New gases are pumped into the atmosphere all the time from geologic processes and other processes such as weathering of rock, biological process, etc (and many of these same processes sequester gases from the atmosphere!). In fact, contribution of frozen gases and water from random, small 'dirty snowballs' floating in our neighborhood and getting sucked into the earts gravity well has a non-negligible effect over the mellinia!
Looking at the earth as a stable-state 'bucket' of anything (water, gas, energy, etc) is absolutely an bass-ackward way of thinking about things.
The momentum a single molecule would need to reach 'escape velocity' from sea level is awesome. While its not my field, and I can't do the math for you, I don't think you have any idea what your talking about here. The idea that radioactive decay from anthropogenic activities will 'kick' molecules out of the atmosphere is absurd. In the very least, if radioactive decay was capable of doing such a thing, it would have already dont it in the several BILLIONS of years that radioactive substances have been decaying naturally. Beyond that, that molecule is not flying in a vacuum! It is one drop in an immense sea of particles every bit as massive as itself. Its like shooting a spit ball into a vat of molassas.
Most of the work that man does with radioactive materials does not create new sources of potential energy in the form of radioactive isotopes, rather condenses them into useful fuels, sources and isotopes of radioactivity. Energy from Anthropogenic fission sources pales in comparison to the historic amount of energy produced from natural fission reactions (there was a super-hot natural reactor somewhere on the african continent that ran for eons! I don't recall the name of the site, but it shouldn't be hard to google up). As for Fusion reactions, well, we are a stones throw from the largest fusion reactor within three or four LIGHT YEARS, and our atmosphere has not been depleted after billions of years of bombardment from that reactor.
Heat from the tidal force of our moon, and from the decay of natural radioactive isotopes is so fierce and so intense it keeps the core of the earth molten, and drives entire continents back and forth accross the earth. The input of heat from the sun is immense, as people here have shown you. The earth is heated by MASSIVE COSMIC SOURCES on the scale of Stars and Moons. The extra heat produced by anthropogenic sources of any type is a toads spit into the ocean of energy.
Your whole thesis is fatally flawed from top to bottom, on simple reasoning alone. I don't know why you persist in this.
"It seems to me that the volcanoes are becoming more active. Does the "greenhouse gas" explain that effect?"
No, its not, and certainly not when looked at in the scale of 10,20,40,80 or 160 years. And your link provides abslutely no evidence to believe your claim.
"Greenhouse gasses do not explain the disappearance of the ozone from the polar regions?"
No, but the existence of other pollutants provides an exceptionally well supported model for this. Why invoke demons in the night (your absurd thesis), when we already know whats going on here!
The addition of greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere can not explain all these effects, but the reduction of the atmospheric density can.
Okay- let me ask you this: Do you have any proof whatsoever that atmospheric density is decreasing with time? This is a trivial measurement. Just look at average barometric readings at sea level over time.
Do you have any proof?
DL
Off Topic » in reply to re: Can you link all the observed global changes to the amount of "greenhouse gasses"?
re: Can you link all the observed global changes to the amount of "greenhouse gasses"?
The whole thread (74 posts)
- I was always a skeptic of Global Warming
- got snow?
- Why yes, we do.
- It is in the 80's in SoCal today. (n/t)
- No wonder, you're smack dab right in the middle of the Rocky Mountain foothills
- re: Bruce Peninsula also has a nuclear power station, but then
- A pleasant reply, in which I do not use the word MORON (aside from the title)
- re: A pleasant reply,
- If the atmospheric density has decreased there is a very easy way to measure it.
- You did not address my points why should we take you seriously?, (n/t)
- I'm skeptical...
- re: A pleasant reply,
- Nuclear reactors don't release radioactive material in normal operation.
- A pleasant reply, in which I do not use the word MORON (aside from the title)
- Actually, it's a bit unusual.
- re: Bruce Peninsula also has a nuclear power station, but then
- re:Same in the Alps! (n/t)
- got snow?
