On Sep 8, 2008, at 11:23 PM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
If the oceans were to boil off, where would all the water to go?
Same place it went on venus, into building a higher altitude more
dense atmosphere.
Besides, there
is also the "evaporative cooler" effect. The faster the
hydrological cycle takes
place, the more rapidly heat is removed. I think this is the major
negative
feedback effect. Also increasing rainfall tends to dissolve more
CO2 and carry
it into the oceans. Though I don't know how close they are to
saturation
(another tipping point), though I suspect that they are already
effectively in
balance with the CO2 in the atmosphere.
There is also the possibility that increasing geothermal action
will release the
methane from the clathrates (and they want to put CO2 down there
too???).
Sure. Ocean dumping has worked for radioactive waste so far, so why
not? Maybe we'll all be dead of old age or war before it gets loose,
so there won't be any political consequences to anyone. Then again,
maybe not.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
