Climate Change Coming Faster Than Expected

Author:
JCSpilman

Date Posted:
02/17/09 01:41 AM

There are several comments that I would like to make about "Global Warming" and "Global Climate Change". FIRST -- is that this is NOT a new effect. It has occurred five times during the past 400,000 years! The basic cause is Methane (CH4) and NOT Carbon Dioxide (CO2). The present global warming cycle began about the time man was crossing the frozen land bridge from Siberia to North America. We need to understand the sources of Methane that are actually the basic cause of our global warming. Anything that has grown, from yard clippings to a decaying body, produces methane as it decomposes. Methane gas from permafrost is a decay product. Methane gas from the deep ocean (methane hydrate) is totally different. Methane gas from oil wells is yet a very different composition. These must all be recognized as such and understood as to their manner of existence, production, and/or release. Deep Sea Methane appears to be the waste product of a bacteriological process, and therefore, is therefore a renewable resource! ( See Reference 2) It is a relative clean product of our environment. It has recently been produced in continuous commercial quantities by American & Japanese scientists in Canada in 2008. It is this Methane gas that has been bubbling up, for eons, from the continental shelfs around the world that is the real culprit and basic cause of our present situation. Oil well Methane gas is a very dirty gas mixture — it is methane with huge amounts of sulfur and other noxious gases mixed with it. The Methane often mentioned in the media as "Bubbling up from Undersea Permafrost" is a decay product. It is NOT from a Hydrate! NEXT -- Drastic Global Climate Change has taken place at least FIVE different times during the last 400,000 years. Our present cycle is the only one during which man has been a factor! (Ref. 1) Methane gas which bubbles up continuously from the deep ocean sources (which in turn disassociates into CO2) is the true source of the "Greenhouse Gas" that has operated in the previous five interglacial cycles — all of which have been extinction cycles! As will this one! These five previous cycles are NOT man made effects, nor is the present cycle, and it IS TOO LATE to change our present cycle, We can only learn to adapt! We cannot STOP the process although we might slow it down for a few years, which in geological time is nothing. REFERENCES There are several prime references associated with the material that I have covered, if ever so briefly. (1) EARTH's CHANGING CLIMATE. Lecture Series by Dr. Richard Wolfson, the Benjamin F. Wissler Professor of Physics at Middlebury College. This is a six hour lecture series (12 segments of 30 minutes each) on two DVDs produced by The Teaching Company of Chantilly VA 20151-1232.?http://www.TEACH12.com This series covers in-depth detail of the science and methodology of climate change. It is not an advocacy program. Interestingly, Dr. Wolfson does not even mention Methane-Clatherate in this lecture series — knowledge on that subject is almost too new to have been included. It was first discovered on a moon of Venus by NASA about 1985. At the time we did not even know that it existed on Earth! (2) FIRE IN THE ICE. Quarterly Journal , U.S.Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory. Also known as Methane Hydrate Newsletter. Recommended reading is all issues to current issue from about 2000 forward. This is the best of several technical journals devoted to the science of Methane Clatherates.?http://www.netl.doe.gov/about/index.html (3) HIGH TIDE by Mark Lynas. Picador, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. 10010. ISBN 0-312-30365-3. This well written book clarifies the problems of Global Warming "… The American People have been subjected to one of the most pervasive misinformation campaigns ever undertaken …"?http://www.picadorusa.com (4) WITH SPEED AND VIOLENCE [Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change] by Fred Pearce. Beacon Press; 25 Beacon Street; Boston, MA 02108. © 2007. "We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption" http://www.beacon.org JCSpilman, P.E. Huntsville, AL ====================================================