I just reviewed a NASA study that stated that water vapor in the air accounted for approximately 75% of the green house affect and Carbon Dioxide accounted for about 20%. Further, it state that it was the increase in Carbon Dioxide was the cause of the glaciers melting that covered New York. This is very interesting since the ice started melting over a 100,000 years ago when there was "zero" human impact. It seems like we need to find out where all the Carbon Dioxide came from 100,000 years ago since the same thing may happen again.
I know for a fact that most of the Carbon Dioxide is dissolved in our oceans. Is that where the Carbon Dioxide came from? If the water got warmer like a warm beer, the Carbon Dioxide would be forced out. Did that happen? If so what caused it? Was the Earth hit with a shower of small meteors that shook up our oceans like what happens when you shake a beer? If some thing like that were to happen today, we would have a major heat wave.
Let's look at coal. The Earth has tons and tons of coal. Where did it come from. Most agree that it is made up of compressed plant material and those plants got their Carbon from the air just like plants do today. When you think about it, there must have been a lot of Carbon Dioxide in the air for a very long time while this was going on. Further, when you look at how thick some of the layers of coal are and the fact that it took millions of years for that much plant material to grow, the weather during those millions of years must have been very stable. My guess is that it was a lot wetter and warmer during that time. If you look at layers of coal, it seem clear that the Earth stopped making coal all of a sudden. Given that the weather was stable for millions of years, you have to ask why it all changed so suddenly?
Another area that needs to be considered is basic weather. Weather is mostly controlled by the uneven surface of the Earth and the uneven heating of the Earth by the Sun as it rotates. We know that the Earth is getting smoother all the time until in the limit the Earth will be as smooth as a bowling ball and the Earth will be 100% covered by water. You only have to look around the world to see that this is clear. There are islands in the Caribbean that have no mountains that are bone dry deserts right next to islands with mountains that have rain forests. As the Earth gets smoother it will look more and more like one of those flat desert island.
Another point is about the density of the atmosphere. We know that the air pressure and air density is lower on top of high mountains and that is where it is colder and we have more rain and snow. There is no coal being formed on top of mountains. It is warmer and wetter at lower elevations where the air pressure and air density is higher. This is where coal may have been formed. Now, if we had more atmosphere in the past, it would have had the affect equivalent to lowering the elevation. Under those conditions we would have had more jungles and places to grow the plants for coal.
What we need is something like Einstein's unification theory related to global warming. The system is too big and too complex to just deal with single individual factors. There is too much interaction between these factors over time and it can not be understood by just holding different factors constant. I don't claim to have the answers, but it is clear to me that these so called experts don't either.
PS--Here is another point I got from my NOAA research. They said that if we did not have green house gases in our atmosphere that the Earth would be a cold frozen planet today. Interesting! Given that the two most important green house gases are water vapor and carbon dioxide, we must have had a lot of this during the time the Earth was making coal. If the atmosphere changed suddenly by something like a big energy storm on the Sun which drove off a lot of water vapor and carbon dioxide, it could have the affect of starting an ice age. During that ice age, if we had a gradual increase in carbon dioxide, that increase in green house gas could account for why the ice age ended. Have you heard any other theories about why the ice age started and ended? It was clearly a gradual event and the increase in green house gas was also a gradual event!
I know for a fact that most of the Carbon Dioxide is dissolved in our oceans. Is that where the Carbon Dioxide came from? If the water got warmer like a warm beer, the Carbon Dioxide would be forced out. Did that happen? If so what caused it? Was the Earth hit with a shower of small meteors that shook up our oceans like what happens when you shake a beer? If some thing like that were to happen today, we would have a major heat wave.
Let's look at coal. The Earth has tons and tons of coal. Where did it come from. Most agree that it is made up of compressed plant material and those plants got their Carbon from the air just like plants do today. When you think about it, there must have been a lot of Carbon Dioxide in the air for a very long time while this was going on. Further, when you look at how thick some of the layers of coal are and the fact that it took millions of years for that much plant material to grow, the weather during those millions of years must have been very stable. My guess is that it was a lot wetter and warmer during that time. If you look at layers of coal, it seem clear that the Earth stopped making coal all of a sudden. Given that the weather was stable for millions of years, you have to ask why it all changed so suddenly?
Another area that needs to be considered is basic weather. Weather is mostly controlled by the uneven surface of the Earth and the uneven heating of the Earth by the Sun as it rotates. We know that the Earth is getting smoother all the time until in the limit the Earth will be as smooth as a bowling ball and the Earth will be 100% covered by water. You only have to look around the world to see that this is clear. There are islands in the Caribbean that have no mountains that are bone dry deserts right next to islands with mountains that have rain forests. As the Earth gets smoother it will look more and more like one of those flat desert island.
Another point is about the density of the atmosphere. We know that the air pressure and air density is lower on top of high mountains and that is where it is colder and we have more rain and snow. There is no coal being formed on top of mountains. It is warmer and wetter at lower elevations where the air pressure and air density is higher. This is where coal may have been formed. Now, if we had more atmosphere in the past, it would have had the affect equivalent to lowering the elevation. Under those conditions we would have had more jungles and places to grow the plants for coal.
What we need is something like Einstein's unification theory related to global warming. The system is too big and too complex to just deal with single individual factors. There is too much interaction between these factors over time and it can not be understood by just holding different factors constant. I don't claim to have the answers, but it is clear to me that these so called experts don't either.
PS--Here is another point I got from my NOAA research. They said that if we did not have green house gases in our atmosphere that the Earth would be a cold frozen planet today. Interesting! Given that the two most important green house gases are water vapor and carbon dioxide, we must have had a lot of this during the time the Earth was making coal. If the atmosphere changed suddenly by something like a big energy storm on the Sun which drove off a lot of water vapor and carbon dioxide, it could have the affect of starting an ice age. During that ice age, if we had a gradual increase in carbon dioxide, that increase in green house gas could account for why the ice age ended. Have you heard any other theories about why the ice age started and ended? It was clearly a gradual event and the increase in green house gas was also a gradual event!
