tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6727975.post5297467937983657119..comments2024-03-25T16:30:58.213+13:00Comments on GREENIE WATCH: JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6727975.post-36090709717824370432008-06-18T11:19:00.000+12:002008-06-18T11:19:00.000+12:00In the Feynman sense of wanting to understand some...In the Feynman sense of wanting to understand something by putting it in words a child could understand, I'm playing with numbers.<BR/><BR/>We live on a water planet, so I want perspective on how much of The Ocean is exposed to air compared to that of a glass of beer.<BR/><BR/>The average depth of The Ocean is 3.7 km or about 25,000 stacked beers, so the ocean has 25K less surface VERSUS volume than a beer, so should take about 25K longer to equilibrate with atmospheric CO2, and dividing by 10 to roughly adjust for the fact that beer is highly OVER saturated with CO2, equilibration ends up relying not on the two hour timescale of a pub, but more like a lifetime.<BR/><BR/>So if we double CO2 to a bigger trace amount, remembering that equilibration speed of most anything depends on energy (in this case pressure) differences, another division by 10 gives us about ten lifetimes, which with frightening exactitude matches the 800 year lag in ice core samples between ocean warming and actual release of slightly oversaturated CO2 back into the atmosphere.<BR/><BR/>Talk about grass roots. You've got a benchtop chemist doing your math. Where's our oil industry funding already and skyrise offices?<BR/><BR/>-=DrN=-<BR/><BR/>P.S. I'll lie, cheat, steal, assassinate, extort, or publish junk science as funding dictates. Am I not worthy of helping to further politicize junk science? I even know how to program multi-variable computer models, especially given enough funding to hire computer majors with no experience in experimental science. Take me, oh Devil, for I hear you pay good hooker money for evil doctors, er, I mean "concerned" scientists. Just because I left academic science because funding and publishing success had become hype-based instead instead of curiosity-based, shouldn't rule me out any more, since I have grown weak and old and vice ridden, having developed a strong affection for top reviewed brothels. Send me young girls and I'll crush this John Ray nuisance with Machiavellian craftsmanship.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com