How about some new radical ideas regarding global warming? I have some that are based on science. That is the idea of this blog.
Remember the ice age? Some say that ice was up to a mile thick. Not only is that a lot of ice, it is also a lot of water. With all that ice melting, you have to ask where all the water ended up? If this ice had been floating on the ocean, it would have had "zero" affect. You understand why that is don't you? Do this test with a full glass of water that has a ice cube floating in it. When the ice cube melts, the glass does not over flow. It is the same with the Polar ice cap. If it melts it will have no affect on the ocean level. Now, the ice that covered North America, that ice was on land and the water has to go some place. Since water runs down hill, it ends up in the oceans and low places like the Great Lakes. You would also think that we would have a lot more swamps after the melting but we don't. We have more deserts in the last 10,000 years, not more swamps. My theory is that we have been losing water into space and that is why we have the world that we do.
Here is why I think this. Space is expanding and that means there is less material in the space around the Earth per cubic foot. Gas pressures want to equalize themselves, so if the the difference between air pressure on Earth increases, gas will tend to leave the Earth. The Earth's gravity is what holds gas to the Earth and it is function of the size of Earth and that has not changed. That means the Earth will lose gas. We know that the Earth's gravity is not strong enough to hold Hydrogen now. The is no Hydrogen in our atmosphere. Why is this important regarding water? Because water is made of two atoms of Hydrogen and one of Oxygen. Energy from the Sun splits a few molecules of water and frees the Hydrogen. When that happens the free Hydrogen escapes into space. That single atom of Oxygen is now very lonesome and attaches itself to a molecule of Oxygen and forms Ozone. This process goes on for millions of years and this is one way that the Earth loses water.
If this is the case, you ask why the level of oceans has remained about the same over thousands of years? Entropy, With gravity, things tend to flow down hill. Right? As rain water flows down hill to the ocean, the water carries soil that makes the oceans more "shallow". This fact tends to compensate for the loss of water.
How about this one? Is the rate of rotation of the earth getting faster or slower? I think that we know it can not stay the same so it has to either speed up or slow down. I can think of nothing that would cause the speed of rotation to speed up, but I can think of many things that can cause it to slow down. How about friction? So what? As the rate of rotation slows, the highs and lows of temperature will be greater. It is like keeping a pie in the oven longer and then taking pie out for longer periods. This higher range causes lakes to dry up and boil off into space. It increases wind and other type of actions of the atmosphere takes to "equalize" temperatures and pressures.
If you look around our solar system, you will see planets that appear to have had both liquid water and an atmosphere that have lost both so we know that things like the above do happen. Now, do really think that burning fossil fuel or other types of human activity caused those planets to lose their water and atmosphere? NO!! If they has the high school science class examining the situation, do you think that they would have seen a pattern of "global warming" like we see now here on Earth? Yes! I don't see much that we can do about global warming here on Earth and should stop worrying about it and go about our lives. Human life on Earth is going to end some time in the future and there is nothing that we can do to stop it or significantly slow it down. If all will end 10,000 years from now, how much would you spend per year for the next 10,000 years to delay that fact by 500 years? I would not spend a single penny!!
PS--Here is another point. From the above logic I have shown that I think we have lost atmosphere and if that is the case, what would have been the affect? We know that the air is thinner at higher altitudes and thus there is less moisture in the air. We also know that all swamps are at low altitudes and low altitudes like Death Valley are hotter. It is also hard to breath at high altitudes but not at low. A big animal like a dinosaur would need a lot of air and thus could only survive at low altitudes where it was warmer and moist. You may also notice that there is not much food or trees at high altitudes. If the Earth has lost much of it atmosphere, it would be like much of the Earth had become high altitude and gotten colder, thus allowing the Ice Age. As the Earth keeps losing atmosphere it changes from colder to warmer until it ends up like Mars with no atmosphere or water.
Remember the ice age? Some say that ice was up to a mile thick. Not only is that a lot of ice, it is also a lot of water. With all that ice melting, you have to ask where all the water ended up? If this ice had been floating on the ocean, it would have had "zero" affect. You understand why that is don't you? Do this test with a full glass of water that has a ice cube floating in it. When the ice cube melts, the glass does not over flow. It is the same with the Polar ice cap. If it melts it will have no affect on the ocean level. Now, the ice that covered North America, that ice was on land and the water has to go some place. Since water runs down hill, it ends up in the oceans and low places like the Great Lakes. You would also think that we would have a lot more swamps after the melting but we don't. We have more deserts in the last 10,000 years, not more swamps. My theory is that we have been losing water into space and that is why we have the world that we do.
Here is why I think this. Space is expanding and that means there is less material in the space around the Earth per cubic foot. Gas pressures want to equalize themselves, so if the the difference between air pressure on Earth increases, gas will tend to leave the Earth. The Earth's gravity is what holds gas to the Earth and it is function of the size of Earth and that has not changed. That means the Earth will lose gas. We know that the Earth's gravity is not strong enough to hold Hydrogen now. The is no Hydrogen in our atmosphere. Why is this important regarding water? Because water is made of two atoms of Hydrogen and one of Oxygen. Energy from the Sun splits a few molecules of water and frees the Hydrogen. When that happens the free Hydrogen escapes into space. That single atom of Oxygen is now very lonesome and attaches itself to a molecule of Oxygen and forms Ozone. This process goes on for millions of years and this is one way that the Earth loses water.
If this is the case, you ask why the level of oceans has remained about the same over thousands of years? Entropy, With gravity, things tend to flow down hill. Right? As rain water flows down hill to the ocean, the water carries soil that makes the oceans more "shallow". This fact tends to compensate for the loss of water.
How about this one? Is the rate of rotation of the earth getting faster or slower? I think that we know it can not stay the same so it has to either speed up or slow down. I can think of nothing that would cause the speed of rotation to speed up, but I can think of many things that can cause it to slow down. How about friction? So what? As the rate of rotation slows, the highs and lows of temperature will be greater. It is like keeping a pie in the oven longer and then taking pie out for longer periods. This higher range causes lakes to dry up and boil off into space. It increases wind and other type of actions of the atmosphere takes to "equalize" temperatures and pressures.
If you look around our solar system, you will see planets that appear to have had both liquid water and an atmosphere that have lost both so we know that things like the above do happen. Now, do really think that burning fossil fuel or other types of human activity caused those planets to lose their water and atmosphere? NO!! If they has the high school science class examining the situation, do you think that they would have seen a pattern of "global warming" like we see now here on Earth? Yes! I don't see much that we can do about global warming here on Earth and should stop worrying about it and go about our lives. Human life on Earth is going to end some time in the future and there is nothing that we can do to stop it or significantly slow it down. If all will end 10,000 years from now, how much would you spend per year for the next 10,000 years to delay that fact by 500 years? I would not spend a single penny!!
PS--Here is another point. From the above logic I have shown that I think we have lost atmosphere and if that is the case, what would have been the affect? We know that the air is thinner at higher altitudes and thus there is less moisture in the air. We also know that all swamps are at low altitudes and low altitudes like Death Valley are hotter. It is also hard to breath at high altitudes but not at low. A big animal like a dinosaur would need a lot of air and thus could only survive at low altitudes where it was warmer and moist. You may also notice that there is not much food or trees at high altitudes. If the Earth has lost much of it atmosphere, it would be like much of the Earth had become high altitude and gotten colder, thus allowing the Ice Age. As the Earth keeps losing atmosphere it changes from colder to warmer until it ends up like Mars with no atmosphere or water.
