Posts by gcnp58

Quote:Originally Posted by dana1981:Dude, don't be dissing physics professors. Wait until you hear me slag off on environmental scientists.  :-) Ok, here's a joke I made up myself: Q:  You get knocked out and...

The core issue I have with all these schemes is that it gives people the hope that someday, somehow, they can all drive their V8 trucks to the store to pick up pre-formed beef patties from cattle raised 2000 miles away, buns made from...

Quote:Originally Posted by gerda:its good mainstream papers are starting to recognise the problem. its all going just far too fast for the normal buffers to keep up, an extremely un-natural imbalance. i'm more worried about this than...

Quote:Originally Posted by Whiteshell001:Sorry Don, maybe GCNP's comments will be understood earier if you fall back on le Chatelier's Principle.  A system will react to minimize the change from an external forcing. For a start on...

Quote:Originally Posted by donfletcher:You have just restated my original position, that by ocean driving CO2 into the atmosphere we set up conditions for atmospheric CO2 to increase the acidity of the ocean. Put another way, asumptions...

Quote:Originally Posted by donfletcher:You appear to be making the point that the CO2 in the atmosphere will not cause ocean acidification, and by inference that nothing can cause ocean acidification, since addition of acid to the oceans...

Quote:Originally Posted by dana1981:I think eric c is trying to make me reconsider my opinion of him.  He asked 2 recent "questions" where he obviously learned nothing from the answers, and I'm sure had no intention of...

Gerda wanted a scrap so here it is.  :-) Normally, I put things like this on my blog, but that typically is only read by porn/Viagra/Eastern Bloc Mail Order Bride e-mail address harvesters so I thought I would provide it here...

Quote:Originally Posted by donfletcher:gcnp58.I did not begin to understand all of what you wrote.But when I see that adding nitrate does not change pH much, no, of course not. What it does is convert carbonate,  increase the amount...

Quote:Originally Posted by dawei:Ah. So I guess natural gas has the same isotope as permafrost? But even still I thought most anthropogenic methane emissions were terrestrial, from rice paddies, cattle farming and solid waste, rather...