Can Science Help Solve the Economic Crisis?

[Chris Coles]

Re: Can Science Help Solve the Economic Crisis?

| Global Warming Irreversible, NOAA Scientist Finds |
| from the is-it-hot-in-here dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 27, @02:57 (Earth) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/27/0224215 |
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Tibor the Hun writes "NPR reports that Susan Solomon, one of the world's top climate scientists, finds in her new study that [0]global warming is now irreversible. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concludes that even if we could immediately cease our impact on pollution and greenhouse gasses emissions, global climate change would continue for more than a thousand years. The reason is the saturation of oceans with carbon dioxide. Her study looked at the consequences of long-term effect in terms of sea-level rise and drought."
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[KGW]

Re: Can Science Help Solve the Economic Crisis?

A bit shorter for those not into literature. . .

*/If money and energy had a constant numerical relationship, money would obey the Laws of Thermodynamics/*

Proposition put in the Chemical Engineer about 1973.

The Financial markets spend their time altering the numerical relationship between energy and money in the hope of countering the three Laws, which briefly are:
1/. You cannot get anything for nothing
2/. You can't get anywhere near getting anything for nothing
3/. Everything tends to decay/go wrong [Inflation, Murphy's Law]

[KGW]

Re: Can Science Help Solve the Economic Crisis?

double post!

[c1ue]

Re: Can Science Help Solve the Economic Crisis?

Irreversible my patootie.

How about exploding a couple dozen really big hydrogen bombs in various parts of the ocean?

The resulting water vapor in the air should drop temperatures quite nicely - or have we all forgotten nuclear winter?

[vinoveri]

Re: Can Science Help Solve the Economic Crisis?

Irreversible? Like any of the global climatological cyclic changes over the last 100 million years?

When meterologists can accurately forecast the weather two weeks out, I might start to take a bit more seriously the climate models that predict the climate 50-100 years out.:rolleyes:

[BadJuju]

Re: Can Science Help Solve the Economic Crisis?

Irreversible my patootie.

How about exploding a couple dozen really big hydrogen bombs in various parts of the ocean?

The resulting water vapor in the air should drop temperatures quite nicely - or have we all forgotten nuclear winter?

I do not think you understand what water vapor or nuclear winter are. :p Water vapor is a GHG, so temperatures would increase. And nuclear winter is accomplished by smoke and soot being ejected into the stratosphere.

[Chris Coles]

Re: Can Science Help Solve the Economic Crisis?

Irreversible my patootie.

How about exploding a couple dozen really big hydrogen bombs in various parts of the ocean?

The resulting water vapor in the air should drop temperatures quite nicely - or have we all forgotten nuclear winter?

If you look up the stats, even a bomb this big http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba did not even get close to the sort of energy levels needed, (not temperatures), to start to evaporate the necessary amount of water vapour you would need to cloak the planet with cloud. But as the previous post, temperature rises when cloud covers the planet. So all you would achieve is even higher temperatures.

[c1ue]

Re: Can Science Help Solve the Economic Crisis?

So put the bombs under semi-dormant volcanoes then