From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ec3b1a84cab8fc8a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10607c,7398fbef6ab8564f,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10607c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-10 07:57:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!194.213.69.151!news.algonet.se!algonet!newsfeed1.uni2.dk!news.net.uni-c.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,sci.environment Subject: Re: Off Topic: NMD/Environment was: (Re: Ada and the NMD) Followup-To: sci.environment Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 16:57:52 +0200 Organization: Centre for Chaos and Turbulence Studies, Niels Bohr Institute Message-ID: <3B9CD4F0.66A9E49@nbi.dk> References: <3B970152.4AC6C6E3@PublicPropertySoftware.com> <3B9795E1.54B12E70@worldnet.att.net> <9n882d$rsh$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B97C5D4.2AFBAEDF@san.rr.com> <3B97EEC5.B9109D9F@san.rr.com> <9naiu2$t1a$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B98F197.79683B64@worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: alf.nbi.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.net.uni-c.dk 1000133873 24360 130.225.212.55 (10 Sep 2001 14:57:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.net.uni-c.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 14:57:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; OSF1 V4.0 alpha) X-Accept-Language: fo,da,no,sv,is,de,fr,en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12989 sci.environment:56268 Date: 2001-09-10T16:57:52+02:00 List-Id: [ XFUT sci.environment ] James: [ solubility of CO2 in water ] > This does not imply that the oceans can rapidly dissolve all excess > CO2 in the atmosphere. It does, however debunk the concept that > increased atmospheric temperatures will trigger a release of > dissolved CO2 in the oceans. I think somebody may have misunderstood something regarding release of greenhouse gasses from the oceans due to increasing temperature. It is suspected (I am not aware of any reasonably certain proofs) that there are large amounts of methane ice stored below the ocean seafloor. The short-term effect of global heating should be increased precipitation in the arctic areas, which means _lower_ sea-levels, and thus lower pressure at the seafloor. The pressure might thus become too low for keeping methane in frozen form in some of the reservoirs, which would result in release of methane into the atmosphere. (definitely lots of if's) Jacob -- "There are only two types of data: Data which has been backed up Data which has not been lost - yet"