Hi Stephen P. King I ALSO THINK WE SHOULD LOOK INTO THORIUM REACTORS BUT THERE ARE MANY DOUBTERS (CERTAINLY GREENIES AMONG THEM) THAT THEY WOULD WORK.
Roger Clough, [email protected] 9/16/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-15, 16:55:58 Subject: Re: Before the automobile: Reconstructed global temperature over thepast 420,000 years On 9/15/2012 4:11 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 9/15/2012 10:36 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 9/15/2012 9:29 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Fig.2. Reconstructed global temperature over the past 420,000 years based on the Vostok ice core from the Antarctica (Petit et al. 2001). The record spans over four glacial periods and five interglacials, including the present. The horizontal line indicates the modern temperature. The red square to the right indicates the time interval shown in greater detail in the following figure. The diagram above (Fig.2) shows a reconstruction of global temperature based on ice core analysis from the Antarctica. The present interglacial period (the Holocene) is seen to the right (red square). The preceding four interglacials are seen at about 125,000, 280,000, 325,000 and 415,000 years before now, with much longer glacial periods in between. All four previous interglacials are seen to be warmer (1-3oC) than the present. The typical length of a glacial period is about 100,000 years, while an interglacial period typical lasts for about 10-15,000 years. The present interglacial period has now lasted about 11,600 years. According to ice core analysis, the atmospheric CO2 concentrations during all four prior interglacials never rose above approximately 290 ppm; whereas the atmospheric CO2 concentration today stands at nearly 390 ppm. T he present interglacial is about 2oC colder than the previous interglacial, even though the atmospheric CO2 concentration now is about 100 ppm higher. -- Hi, Does not this graph strongly suggests a secular periodicity Milankovich cycles. But in the present case there is no mystery about where the CO2 comes from and whether it's a natural cycle - it's us. to global climate variation? If I am reading the graph correctly, we are overdue for a glaciation event. Maybe anthropogenic CO2 is just Nature's way of forestalling the immanent ice age so that Humanity might evolve beyond the bounds of this planet's surface. Nature acting by magic, i.e. supernaturally!? This thought leads me to believe that all that are overly concerned with damping human activity are anti-human evolution and we can see this directly in the real world consequences of their policy dictates. All of the plans that have been advanced to suppress anthropogenic CO2 are repressive to the human condition. "Let us return to the Stone age" we are told by the elites that are soo worried about the impending doom of global warming. "Are you insane?", I reply. I'm giving a talk Monday on why we should be building molten-salt thorium reactors to replace the burning of fossil fuels for electrical power. Brent -- I strongly support that project! -- Onward! Stephen http://webpages.charter.net/stephenk1/Outlaw/Outlaw.html -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
