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WEAK THINKING CONCERNING GLOBAL CLIMATE; THE PROBLEM NOW & LATER ON, SOME NEW SOLUTIONS

THE PROBLEM
WEAK CURRENT THINKING CONCERNING GLOBAL CLIMATE

It’s happening sooner than you think. All five climate computer models in the Sen. McCain’s http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/16/politics/16mccain.html
US Senate Hearings in 2004 left out one important factor: methane hydrate and its action on seawater rising with evaporation. The released methane, a global warming gas, is 24 times more green-house warming than carbon dioxide,
the most common culprit. http://www.energybulletin.net/38767.html It is typically left out of predictions with dire implications.

Several researchers, however, put in the disclaimer that there could be some “surprises” based upon other factors. The feared oceanic level may not be four feet higher but forty and it could be at the end of the decade not the century. The main problem is the out of control methane hydrate. It is spirally exponentially higher in a positive feedback loop.
http://seedmagazine.com/news/2006/09/post_3.php

Now, a research team returning from Siberia adds more weight to the idea that the process of global warming will itself accelerate further warming. In a study published in the Sept. 7 issue of Nature, scientists report that greenhouse gases trapped in thawing permafrost are escaping into the atmosphere at a frightening rate. "As the permafrost thaws, these large quantities of methane are being released," said Jeff Chanton, an oceanographer at Florida State University and co-author of the study. "The methane gets out and that makes it warmer, so that means more methane gets out and that makes it even warmer, and so you get stuck in this positive feedback loop."
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/3/26/14338/8641

An accelerating loss of the solar reflective power of glaciers and floating Arctic ice warms the planet. The physical expansion of warming oceanic waters could drastically speed up the water’s upward trend. http://veniceblog.typepad.com/veniceblog/2006/06/an_inconvenient.html

The total combined climate changing power would result from the melting of the Greenland glaciers (26 feet) and the complete Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, raising sea levels by 16.4 feet more. This effect was described by the Oscar-winning Al Gore movie, “An Inconvenient Truth.” http://www.climatecrisis.net/

Pay no attention to the Mayan Calendar that ends in 2012/2013. It was a 26,000 year cycle in which Earth transits through each of the 12 signs of the zodiac for about 2152 years each. Sumerians, Tibetans, Egyptians, Cherokees, Hopi, and Mayans refer to this same 26,000 year cycle in their mystical belief systems and each have developed calendars based on this great cycle. http://www.13moon.com/prophecy%20page.htm

Do not worry about the 11-year solar maximum cycle with increasing shotgun-like coronal ejections. They began showing stunning Internet videos of from NOAA satellites in 2001. Add eleven years to that time and it will be 2012 when that cycle will happen again.

No, but the real fact is that according to ice cores in Greenland glaciers, major climate shift conversion of 15 degrees F. took only one decade. ONLY ONE DECADE!
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Paleoclimatology_Evidence/paleocl...

Accordingly, one might argue that the beginning of the switchover to our climate change condition started just prior to 2004. That is the year of Hurricane Katrina, over 1000 dead, and the south-east Asian tsunami, 230,000 dead, the worst natural killing machine in recent recorded history. Let’s assume that it began in 2003, with the record heat wave in Europe that took 35,000 lives. Therefore, just add on a decade to 2003 and it is clear that the time to begin looking for even more major catastrophes is from 2013 to 2023, not 2099.

Richard Bransen, founder of Virgin Airways, committed $3 billion of his company’s profits to clean up the CO2 in the atmosphere to end global warming. Dr James Hansen was chosen head of the panel of judges for a $25 million prize for inventions to accomplish this purpose.

Dr James Hansen, Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies: “I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change … no longer than a decade, at most. This is why I am supporting the Virgin Earth Challenge as a judge – we must explore all means, both known and unknown, to help alleviate this crisis.”
http://youreco.com/2007/02/08/25-mm-global-warming-prize/