[geo] Re: Hawaii Saved by Shear Luck Again

2009-08-17 Thread Mike MacCracken
In fact, Kerry Emanuel and students has a hypothesis that increased tropical cyclone activity (so number and or power and/or duration) and consequent vertical stirring of low latitude ocean areas is essential to providing the extra meridional energy flux to explain how the Cretaceous can be so

[geo] Re: Hawaii Saved by Shear Luck Again

2009-08-17 Thread dsw_s
Do stronger storms mix water deeper? (It seems obvious that they would, but lots of things seem obvious and aren't true.) If so, it would seem that having more weak storms would re-churn the same thinner layer of water more often, transporting less heat toward the poles than if fewer big storms

[geo] Orbiting solar power station and other bulk shipments off stuff ...

2009-08-17 Thread Veli Albert Kallio
I just got contacted solar power satellite operator that will microwave down beam the energy to receiving station where it is converted back to electricity. The launch is within year 2010 and can use mobile receptor stations to transmit electricity of disaster zones. I will post later

[geo] Why SRM isn't enough

2009-08-17 Thread Greg Rau
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es901664n?cookieSet=1 Is regulation on ocean acidification on the horizon? Noreen Parks Environ. Sci. Technol., 2009, 43 (16), pp 6118-6119 DOI: 10.1021/es901664n Publication Date (Web): June 24, 2009 Copyright © 2009 American Chemical Society With mounting

[geo] Re: Why SRM isn't enough

2009-08-17 Thread Eugene I. Gordon
Sorry. Mounting evidence is not the same as proven science and urgent alarmism won't cut it. Why is it that 'mounting evidence' is enough to trigger major changes in lifestyles, government expenditires. curtailment of emerging economies, etc. but cannot solve other human problems such as absence

[geo] Re: atmospheric and oceanic warming

2009-08-17 Thread dsw_s
Consider that in the arctic, above 38 degrees north latitude, a reduction of more than 1,134 Megawatts per square mile per day can be achieved by replacing open seawater with a layer of snow-covered ice. Megawatts per day? On Aug 17, 9:45 pm, Eugene I. Gordon euggor...@comcast.net wrote: