RedWine
09-10-2007, 03:21 AM
Mount Everest has lost 3.7 meters from its height since 1975. This could not have been a process; measured by hours, days or years. These small occurrences have been accumulating during the last 25 years. Minor tremors to be included but not earthquakes.
During the same course of time the temperature of Lake Superior has increased by 4.5 degrees centigrade. The temperature of the air over the lake is colder than the water in the lake. This means evaporation, drifts, precipitation and not pouring back into Lake Superior.
If we associate the above two occurrences to the green-house gas effects we run into uncertainties if not absurdities. Two separate chapters must be opened for green-house gas effects and global warming. If mount Everest sunk into earth by 370 centimeters in 25 years so could the ice mountains in the arctic. Height-loss in subzero air around and above the surface of frozen water seems an improbable cause. Surface and base under water have different situations.
There is a concept in thermodynamics called entropy. A word astoundingly similar in sound and meaning to atrophy in the medical world, the shrinking of organs like the brain, liver, kidney etc. Atrophy is abnormal but entropy pentaining to the shrinking of the earth is a law of the planet, ever vaguely described in textbooks. A process on the go from the day the earth was separated from the sun billions of years ago; a huge mass of molten lava seething and bubbling with hot gases, rotating around the sun with eight other planets. The solar brothers in the system. With the passing of the centuries, the surface of planet earth has cooled and formed a crust. The crust, served as an insulation layer around the molten core, has became thicker with time.
The core temperature has kept relatively constant but heat transfer from the core to the surface has continued, reducing the diameter of the core, increasing the thickness of the crust. The crust and the core have became our planet earth, shrinking un-noticeably from inception on to be, through the life-span of the planet.
The thickness of the insulation not being effective enough no mater what material impeding heat transfer. There is no perfect insulation known to science. No absolute stoppage. Heat transfers at different rates from the hot-side to the cold- side no mater what the material. Only the thickness of the insulation could bring down the heat transfer to near none, but never the absolute none could be achieved. Never the absolute zero.
There is continuous heat transfer from the core of the earth to the surface and we call it global warming because now it has encompassed the earth, reached a critical stage, new vocabulary is needed to convey the meaning in short terms and at different eras. On the other hand the heat content of the earth is reducing which means the earth is cooling by losing heat at the same rate because of entropy. Heat loss of the earth being the main cause, anything happening out of order on earth causing a decrease of energy is also entropy. Explosion of an atomic bomb on earth is not Entropy, but an earthquake is. The insulation we call crust is shrinking, so the heat loss from the hot-core is higher. So the core is also becoming smaller. Mount Everest is giving the earliest signs that the earths diameter has reduced by an increment. Heat transfers not in BTU per hour, per century or millennium -these are small units compared to the happenings in space.
If Lake Superior water is heated to a level that its water temperature has risen by 4.5 ºc, in the last 25 years. Where does that heat comes from? The air above water is cooler, a highly reverse situation for lakes and why no temperature rise was ever reported before. All happening in this quarter of the century. Is a sorcerer at work or is the increased heat under the huge basin, becoming noticeable at the surface now.
Imagine a scientist in the early 20th century predicting an optimistic temperature rise of 1.5ºc on the earths surface within the next hundred years. This rise is the opinion of many scientists, now, for the next century. Portion of heat (in BTU per century) from the core of earth reaches the bedrocks beneath the ice -mountains, the whole range of ice-mountains. Heat melts the ice at whatever temperature it reaches the base of the stout or small mountains. Loss of height in the course of years occurs but in this case a portion of mountain, unlike mount Everest being in air, sink into sub-zero water warmer than ice. The mountain loses both height and stoutness.
In due time, stresses are created to the point that ice- mountains separate. Glaciers split into sections.
Things would be exactly as we see on television now. The preset cameras on ships recording ice-mountains crashing together. Huge pieces of ice like mountains go on floating. There are isles. On a piece of ice the size of a boat we see a lone polar beer appearing haggard, tired observing its surroundings. By instinct perhaps aware that the old habitat is deteriorating. Never again returning back to its early virgin self.
The radius of the un-even earth, is approximately 8000 kilometers. For the hot-core, approach zone and all optimistically take 2000 kilometers off. That leaves 6000 kilometers of earth which serves as insulation for the hot core. This distance is more or less equivalent to the number of kilometers we put on a family car per year.
The thickness of the insulation is not always as it was before. But the core temperature remains constant. There are numerous indications on the surface of earth to confirm, the fact that abuse of the insulation by man are numerous.
When the hot-core cools by measures through centuries it’s diameter or size is bound to becomes smaller. There are cave-ins. Moist trailing the huge mass of the earth collapses at times into the molten lava. Pressure builds up to a level that volcanoes become active. Through history villages and cities have perished because of the on-coming lava from erupting volcanoes. The most historically prominent city being Pompeii. It perished from sight and discovery took place centuries later.
There are hollowness inside the earth that remain in place and in suitable times move like reptiles, weakening the inner structure, causing an earthquake on land and sea or guiding hot lava near to the surface. Geothermical power-plants are friendly with atmosphere, clean energy, not at war with climate. Some countries in this field are front runners. Water brought into contact with the molten rocks, which are more near the surface than the core, generates steam. Turns the turbines in the power-plant. Eventually the steam turns into condensation, to which a little processed water is added. Guided by a small pipe back on the molten rocks steam re-generates continuously and thus the cycle completes. The volcanoes remain dormant because there is no pressure build-up. But heat comes from the core, eventually. More hollowness more damage to the normal heat transfer of earth, with so mach new conduit to the surface. If mount Everest sunk 3.70 meters in 25 years we can be sure that our good planet earth is suffering from osteoporosis.
Some 40 years ago a movie was made, titled A COIN IN THE FOUNTAIN. It was a lyrical love story in tune with the time and of course happening in France. People with a wish dropped a coin in the pond of the fountain. The camera, in a shot, showed so many coins in the shallow pond. Now there are no coins in the pond. If there is one, you have to search for it. Now in hot summers of France people take off as much clothes as they can. They go under the spouting fountain, children and grownups wallow in the water laughingly. They get cool. The short-term wish comes through without spending a coin.
Southern Europe needs air-conditioning. Switzerland with it’s ski mountains, lake Geneva, chalets needs summer time air-conditioning. But we always think the good old days will return. The climate will reverse itself. That will never happen. The problem is serious. Heat comes to the surface at a higher rate now, lingers on if there is no breeze or gets absorbed in the lakes, ponds or any other cool place.
The limits of temperature for human comfort are minute. Between 24º and 26º degrees with slight air-movement to be felt. Without air-movement, within the limit of those temperatures, one will not be comfortable behind desks with a suit and necktie. Now half the continent needs air-conditioning, but decades later it will be required every where. That means colossal energy that eventually produces more heat. Cool in the inside and hot, very hot, outside. That is no gift to a populace that never needed air-conditioning.
Home-kept Encyclopedias are not up-to-date mostly. If you open one and read about the brood of dinosaurs, There is a statement at the end “ It is a mystery ” they perished so abruptly from earth 65 million years ago. It remains no longer a mystery. The late physicist and Nobel Laureate Professor Alvarez (University of California) decades ago in a seminar or in a scientific paper stated that dinosaurs perished from earth because of an earthquake. That opened the door to further scrutiny from other scientists. A big dent on earth was discovered in Mexico. Forensic science discovered it being there millions of years ago to be more exact 65 million years.
During the same course of time the temperature of Lake Superior has increased by 4.5 degrees centigrade. The temperature of the air over the lake is colder than the water in the lake. This means evaporation, drifts, precipitation and not pouring back into Lake Superior.
If we associate the above two occurrences to the green-house gas effects we run into uncertainties if not absurdities. Two separate chapters must be opened for green-house gas effects and global warming. If mount Everest sunk into earth by 370 centimeters in 25 years so could the ice mountains in the arctic. Height-loss in subzero air around and above the surface of frozen water seems an improbable cause. Surface and base under water have different situations.
There is a concept in thermodynamics called entropy. A word astoundingly similar in sound and meaning to atrophy in the medical world, the shrinking of organs like the brain, liver, kidney etc. Atrophy is abnormal but entropy pentaining to the shrinking of the earth is a law of the planet, ever vaguely described in textbooks. A process on the go from the day the earth was separated from the sun billions of years ago; a huge mass of molten lava seething and bubbling with hot gases, rotating around the sun with eight other planets. The solar brothers in the system. With the passing of the centuries, the surface of planet earth has cooled and formed a crust. The crust, served as an insulation layer around the molten core, has became thicker with time.
The core temperature has kept relatively constant but heat transfer from the core to the surface has continued, reducing the diameter of the core, increasing the thickness of the crust. The crust and the core have became our planet earth, shrinking un-noticeably from inception on to be, through the life-span of the planet.
The thickness of the insulation not being effective enough no mater what material impeding heat transfer. There is no perfect insulation known to science. No absolute stoppage. Heat transfers at different rates from the hot-side to the cold- side no mater what the material. Only the thickness of the insulation could bring down the heat transfer to near none, but never the absolute none could be achieved. Never the absolute zero.
There is continuous heat transfer from the core of the earth to the surface and we call it global warming because now it has encompassed the earth, reached a critical stage, new vocabulary is needed to convey the meaning in short terms and at different eras. On the other hand the heat content of the earth is reducing which means the earth is cooling by losing heat at the same rate because of entropy. Heat loss of the earth being the main cause, anything happening out of order on earth causing a decrease of energy is also entropy. Explosion of an atomic bomb on earth is not Entropy, but an earthquake is. The insulation we call crust is shrinking, so the heat loss from the hot-core is higher. So the core is also becoming smaller. Mount Everest is giving the earliest signs that the earths diameter has reduced by an increment. Heat transfers not in BTU per hour, per century or millennium -these are small units compared to the happenings in space.
If Lake Superior water is heated to a level that its water temperature has risen by 4.5 ºc, in the last 25 years. Where does that heat comes from? The air above water is cooler, a highly reverse situation for lakes and why no temperature rise was ever reported before. All happening in this quarter of the century. Is a sorcerer at work or is the increased heat under the huge basin, becoming noticeable at the surface now.
Imagine a scientist in the early 20th century predicting an optimistic temperature rise of 1.5ºc on the earths surface within the next hundred years. This rise is the opinion of many scientists, now, for the next century. Portion of heat (in BTU per century) from the core of earth reaches the bedrocks beneath the ice -mountains, the whole range of ice-mountains. Heat melts the ice at whatever temperature it reaches the base of the stout or small mountains. Loss of height in the course of years occurs but in this case a portion of mountain, unlike mount Everest being in air, sink into sub-zero water warmer than ice. The mountain loses both height and stoutness.
In due time, stresses are created to the point that ice- mountains separate. Glaciers split into sections.
Things would be exactly as we see on television now. The preset cameras on ships recording ice-mountains crashing together. Huge pieces of ice like mountains go on floating. There are isles. On a piece of ice the size of a boat we see a lone polar beer appearing haggard, tired observing its surroundings. By instinct perhaps aware that the old habitat is deteriorating. Never again returning back to its early virgin self.
The radius of the un-even earth, is approximately 8000 kilometers. For the hot-core, approach zone and all optimistically take 2000 kilometers off. That leaves 6000 kilometers of earth which serves as insulation for the hot core. This distance is more or less equivalent to the number of kilometers we put on a family car per year.
The thickness of the insulation is not always as it was before. But the core temperature remains constant. There are numerous indications on the surface of earth to confirm, the fact that abuse of the insulation by man are numerous.
When the hot-core cools by measures through centuries it’s diameter or size is bound to becomes smaller. There are cave-ins. Moist trailing the huge mass of the earth collapses at times into the molten lava. Pressure builds up to a level that volcanoes become active. Through history villages and cities have perished because of the on-coming lava from erupting volcanoes. The most historically prominent city being Pompeii. It perished from sight and discovery took place centuries later.
There are hollowness inside the earth that remain in place and in suitable times move like reptiles, weakening the inner structure, causing an earthquake on land and sea or guiding hot lava near to the surface. Geothermical power-plants are friendly with atmosphere, clean energy, not at war with climate. Some countries in this field are front runners. Water brought into contact with the molten rocks, which are more near the surface than the core, generates steam. Turns the turbines in the power-plant. Eventually the steam turns into condensation, to which a little processed water is added. Guided by a small pipe back on the molten rocks steam re-generates continuously and thus the cycle completes. The volcanoes remain dormant because there is no pressure build-up. But heat comes from the core, eventually. More hollowness more damage to the normal heat transfer of earth, with so mach new conduit to the surface. If mount Everest sunk 3.70 meters in 25 years we can be sure that our good planet earth is suffering from osteoporosis.
Some 40 years ago a movie was made, titled A COIN IN THE FOUNTAIN. It was a lyrical love story in tune with the time and of course happening in France. People with a wish dropped a coin in the pond of the fountain. The camera, in a shot, showed so many coins in the shallow pond. Now there are no coins in the pond. If there is one, you have to search for it. Now in hot summers of France people take off as much clothes as they can. They go under the spouting fountain, children and grownups wallow in the water laughingly. They get cool. The short-term wish comes through without spending a coin.
Southern Europe needs air-conditioning. Switzerland with it’s ski mountains, lake Geneva, chalets needs summer time air-conditioning. But we always think the good old days will return. The climate will reverse itself. That will never happen. The problem is serious. Heat comes to the surface at a higher rate now, lingers on if there is no breeze or gets absorbed in the lakes, ponds or any other cool place.
The limits of temperature for human comfort are minute. Between 24º and 26º degrees with slight air-movement to be felt. Without air-movement, within the limit of those temperatures, one will not be comfortable behind desks with a suit and necktie. Now half the continent needs air-conditioning, but decades later it will be required every where. That means colossal energy that eventually produces more heat. Cool in the inside and hot, very hot, outside. That is no gift to a populace that never needed air-conditioning.
Home-kept Encyclopedias are not up-to-date mostly. If you open one and read about the brood of dinosaurs, There is a statement at the end “ It is a mystery ” they perished so abruptly from earth 65 million years ago. It remains no longer a mystery. The late physicist and Nobel Laureate Professor Alvarez (University of California) decades ago in a seminar or in a scientific paper stated that dinosaurs perished from earth because of an earthquake. That opened the door to further scrutiny from other scientists. A big dent on earth was discovered in Mexico. Forensic science discovered it being there millions of years ago to be more exact 65 million years.