Hi meekerdb The CO2 is mostly dissolved in the oceans. The oceans are the vast reservoir for CO2.
When the oceans warm, the solubility of the CO2 becomes less and so is added to the atmosphere as a gas. When the oceans cool, the CO2 is more soluble in the colder water, and so is reabsorbed into the oceans. The rest of this is just my speculation. The periodicity of the natural cycles of warming and cooling, since they do not fit the Mihalovich cycle very axccurately, would have to have something to do with some earthly phenomenon. Since the oceans seem to hold all of the cards, I suggest that the natural periodicity of the cycles of warming/cooling are a resonant phenomenon associated in some way to the cyclic warming and cooling of the oceans. My suggestion is that the opposing factor is simply a total energy resonant phenomenon just like a swinging pendulum. In this concept everything is caused by energy resonances of the earth itself, perhaps north to south flows, not the sun and not automobiles. The regular periodicity of the cooling/heating cycle. If not north to south, perhaps it is somehow asslociated to the la nina and el nino deep sea phenomena. Roger Clough, [email protected] 9/17/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-16, 01:44:45 Subject: Re: Before the automobile: Reconstructed global temperature over thepast 420,000 years On 9/15/2012 9:20 PM, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Sep 15 meekerdb wrote: > in the present case there is no mystery about where the CO2 comes from and > whether it's a natural cycle - it's us. Probably, but I'm not terribly concerned about it, the increase in CO2 over the last century is really just a blip; in fact at NO time in the last 600 million years has CO2 levels been significantly lower than now In fact it has been less than half the current level during the last 600 thousand years, a time period more relevant to the adaptation of current flora, fauna, and agriculture. But it is not just the level that is worrisome, it is the rapidity of increase, which would appear as instantaneous on the paleoclimate studies. and during most of that time it was about 10 times higher than now, sometimes closer to 15 or even 20. And yet life thrived. But not human life. And I think people sometimes forget that CO2 is not the most important greenhouse gas, water vapor is. But water vapor equilibrates with ocean temperature very quickly, whereas CO2 takes hundreds of years to come into equilibrium. Water vapor is the most important green house gas, but it acts as a positive feedback, amplifying other warming (or cooling) effects. Brent -- 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.
