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Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Global Warming

We've all heard about global warming. Are we responsible? Don't know yet.

Does global warming exist.....Yes, but so does global cooling sometimes.

Here's what I've heard..
  1. We are spewing out carbon dioxide like it's going out of style. Our plants and plankton can't absorb the CO2 as fast as we and our volcanoes spew it out. So, the level of CO2 raises with a consequential warming of our planet.
  2. Our earth goes through natural processes and there were times on our planet when CO2 levels were much higher than they are now. The earth was much colder and warmer than it is now.
  3. One theory about global warming states that these hot/cold spells are dependent on the orientation of the earth's axis relative to the sun as it is traveling around the sun in its elliptical path. So, sometimes, the summer orientation also happens to coincide with when the earth is closest to the sun. VOILA!, its hotter in the summer = more snow melt=more dark ground exposed = more methane released from permafrost = more greenhouse gases = warmer planet.
  4. Our solar system travels around the galaxy askew from what's called the galactic plane. This means that the solar system will cross the galactic plane twice on its journey around our galaxy. The galactic plane has different forces at play; I'm thinking a more directional gravitational tug from the stars that are in the plane. So, what happens to the sun when it crosses the galactic plane... it's stretched. The internal structure of the sun changes with a resultant increase in nuclear activity... i.e. the sun warms up! (Like mixing around embers in a campfire.) Our earth will be at the center of the galactic plane circa 2012. (Hmmm! Mayan Calendar?)
  5. There's evidence that our whole solar system is warming up... not just the earth. The polar ice caps on Mars are melting, the frozen moons around Saturn and Jupiter are melting, Pluto is warming up.

We know just enough to be dangerous.


My opinions, comments and suggestions are these....
  1. All of the above are responsible to some degree.
  2. What a GREAT! way to spawn new technologies to sell. Selling the same old thing with modifications is getting boring to me. Thanks Al Gore!
  3. Create a nuclear winter (not my idea) not on earth (my idea), but in orbit between the earth and the sun. Place it and size its particles so that the solar wind will push it out of the way when we won't need it anymore.
  4. Fertilize the plankton in our oceans so that they absorb more
    CO2, create more limestone, and sink.
  5. Let's start shifting our economics so that we can painlessly use "Free Energy" (more on this later.)
  6. Let's start reducing our population so that we produce less CO2. (more on this later - remember, a economic and human friendly way.) If none of us had babies, we'd all be gone in 100 yrs.

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