Re: [Phys-l] This amount of energy boggles bc's mind

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

OTOH, if we manage to kill off 5 billion people, than the energy/resource 
needs of the remaining billion can be met with little negative effect to the 
environment!  ;-)

Rick


Right, that's the point of the "Revenge of Gaia"!


bc, who posted to provoke responses such as Rick's





Rick Tarara wrote:

> The problem with this kind of reporting is that (at least for scientists) it 
> leaves more questions than answers.  What about the rest of the oceans?  Is 
> the temperature rising, steady, or falling there?  Is this a global trend of 
> ocean warming or a redistribution of thermal energy?  What is the mechanism 
> for transferring this energy back to the atmosphere--since I would assume it 
> has been transferred from the atmosphere to the oceans?  At .002 degrees per 
> year, that's 500 years for a 1 degree rise (which should be well after we've 
> exhausted affordable fossil fuels).  I would think the North Atlantic is FAR 
> from the 12C critical temperature noted in the report.
>
> So yes, that's a huge amount of energy, but is it really a NET increase? 
> The report is a mishmash of this ocean data with vague predictions about 
> CO2.  So whatever the real science actually is, this kind of journalism may 
> do more to obscure it than to 'enlighten' folks.
>
> OTOH, if we manage to kill off 5 billion people, than the energy/resource 
> needs of the remaining billion can be met with little negative effect to the 
> environment!  ;-)
>
> Rick
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bernard Cleyet" <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>
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> > "DAVID ADAM, GUARDIAN - Global warming is creating a climate time bomb
> > by storing enormous amounts of heat in the waters of the north
> > Atlantic, UK scientists have discovered. Marine researchers at
> > Southampton and Plymouth universities have found that the upper 1,500
> > meters of the ocean from western Europe to the eastern US have warmed
> > by 0.015C in seven years. The capacity of the oceans to store heat
> > means that a water temperature rise of that size is enough to warm the
> > atmosphere above by almost 9C. . .
> >
> >    
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