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thanks... everyone who supports the excessive use of fossil fuels (e.g. vis a vis via operating a motor vehicle) hence overproducing greenhouse gases ...
waste not, want not. Mt. Kilamanjaro IS losing its snow cap. a similar mechanism is undoubtedly responsible for the past years' record Mississippi Floods. omg. what year did i make this agin? ocean levels ARE reported to be rising..(see below) ..

there IS no ESCAPE from REALITY

COCKTAIL EARTH

click on figures to exit to actual research
(assuming you are on a wire with
priviledge to the journals
e.g. at a university computer lab)

"IS the climate changing??..."

here are some graphics from the work of
Shepherd et al Science 291(5505):862 2001
and
Levitus et al Sci. 292(5515):267 2001.

the ICE CUBES

"PIG" stands for "Pine Island Glacier."
Yes. I find that trippy as well.

the position of
ANTARCTIC CONTINENTAL MASS
has been sustaining our
current ice age

for
over 32 million years

North Pole Circumpolar Current

That baby opens up, POW!

the above table is from the Levitus paper, showing the magnitudes of various thermal contributers.
i'd like to point out here the magnitude of one forcing agent that fascinates me:
ANTARCTICA
the volume of ice in antarctica is approximately 25 million cubic kilometers. i'd like to use the heat of fusion for a little thought experiment.
what potential for thermal rectifier feedback is contained in the icecaps?
using the value for mass based heat of fusion i found by going to the webpage served at the "heat of fusion" link,
namely 344.44 J g^-1, let's do a little calculation:

25 x 10⁶ km³ = 2.5 x 10⁷ km³
1000 m = 1 km = 1 x 10³ m so 1 km³ = 1 x 10⁹ m³ (3 dimensions)
2.5 x 10⁷ km³ x 1 x 10⁹ m³ ÷ 1 km³ = 2.5 x 10¹⁶ m³
note that the unit "cc" for "cubic centimter" is equal to the volume measure milliliter (mL)
which for water is equal to 1 g. therefore,
100 cm = 1 m = 1 x 10² cm so 1 x 10⁶ cm³ = 1 m³
2.5 x 10¹⁶ m³ x 1 x 10⁶ cm³ (cc) ÷ 1 m³ = 2.5 x 10²² g
344.44 J g^-1 x 2.5 x 10²² g = 8.611 x 10²⁴ J

now we can compare this figure to say the ENTIRE observed increase of werld ocean heat,
the first entry in the above table..

8.611 x 10²⁴ J ÷ 1.82 x 10²³ J = 47.31 !!!!

the
thermal rectification potential
of the antarctic icecap is
quite significant.

a key idea to remember is that the energy required to
RELEASE the ice is
not necessarily the same as the energy required to MELT it. i have read papers talking about the potential of the two ice shelves
(Ross and Ronne (Weddell Sea) )
in a scenerio of catastrophic breakup leading to an increase of continental glacier floe rate.
basically, the global warming is BEGGING the planet to rectify the matter.

in march of 2002, the new york times had i believe the picture at below right on its front page.

the larsen B ice shelf was about the size of
the smallest united state of america, i.e. rhode island.
the BBC has a nice diagram

that shows that the location of larsen B is
relatively low latitude,

i.e. the most temperate
part of antarctica,
hence the
first part of the icecap to go.

click on the BBC diagram above to go to the
national snow and ice data center
site showing an animation of actual satelite data,
similar to the picture at the right.

B-15: Delaware iceberg

below i have provided an example of a larger (delaware is the second smallest state) amount of ice being released
and a close-up map of the ross sea area where it is banging around. click on the animation on the left
to go to the site where i borrowed it from.

an inconvenient truth mentions the volumetric effect of
continental ice sheet release into the oceans and puts the
estimate at 20ft (about 6m) of
werldwide sea level increase
for both the melting of greenland
and an additional 20ft (total of 40ft SO FAR) for

west antarctica
(site of the west antarctic ice sheet (WAIS)
in the above map entitled "the ice cubes" and
the part of antarctica more prone to collapse,
containing the two ice shelves.)

"antialarmists" like to have a field day with the fact that there seem to be inconsistancies amoung researchers, for example data i obtained from a textbook of glaciology from the uc berkeley earth science library put

greenland's cap at 2.38 million km³
and antarctica's at 30.1 million km³

but above i used the 25 million km³ figure
given to me via email by a researcher.
my feeling is that assessing
west antarctica as equal to greenland
might be selling west antarctica a little short.

on the subject of sea level, such changes are not believed to be new.
at right is some research that has reconstructed ancient sea levels based on
evidence such as fossil coral reefs found above depths expected
for that particular species or
tree trunks that have been submerged below the shoreline.
sea level rise and fall is

indirectly proportional
to the growth of the ice sheets,
i.e. sea level goes up when ice sheets recede.

you can see by part A of the figure at the right, which extends just into the
precambrian era
that sea level has for the most part been higher than today except at
a bifurcation point
near the permian triassic border, which is the subject of a book
(as of september 28, 2006 a book that i have not finished)
called extinction by douglas erwin, but i digress.
i find post
KT boundary
(65 million years ago marked by a heavy line in this same part A of the figure)
to be of more interest to the ideas presented here.
if one looks at the breakup of the continents during that period,

(i.e. 65 million years ago to the present day)

you will see antarctica gradually taking its place of today straddling the south pole.
you can see the effect on sea level of this modern period
as the ice sheets have increased while the sea level decreased.
in fact, present day sea levels are actually
bucking a trend
of somewhere between 31 million and 120 thousand years
(if we are restricted to assessing the situation based on this data,
which we are not)
of increased glacial ice.

both of these figures, from the same paper, include ¹⁸O / ¹⁶O isotope ratio study axes the confounding complexities of this stuff abounds, but the basic idea is that ¹⁸O is heavier than ¹⁶O so ¹⁸O is found in different hyrdological pools based on evaporation rates of the water containing the two isotopes.	here at left we see this alarming trend of the ice sheets cometh, during the period since 3.3 Ma (Mega anna, or millions years ago) denoted by an admittedly noisy but clear trend in red and purple at the top of the figure. though the p value would certainly be under scrutiny by those whose conflict of interest is to prove the benign nature of pushing our climatological system at full throttle (note the reference to fossil fuels), to the unbiased eye it should seem fairly unmistakable. the figure comes from not the first source i have encountered that has explained to me the nature of the oligocene era, clearly (actually, the close inspection of this figure enlightens me (see below)) inaugurated here by the transition explained at the far left of the figure from "small antarctic ice sheets" to "large antarctic ice sheets" in retrospect, this all seems pretty freekin' simple to me...
	Columbia's Environmental Science Department has a nice little graph showing the linear relationship between the ¹⁸O / ¹⁶O isotope ratio and temperature (see left) i almost dropped my laptop when i saw the diagram below, found on Wikipedia the first time i saw a diagram with a similar temporal axis was in the book mentioned above, extinction. it illuminated me to the origin of the term "KT" in "KT boundary," though it is a bit less clear in the below diagram. from some book in uc berkeley's earth science library, i copied a nice geologic time scale table that i have been keeping with me in my briefcase. the figure 3 above left has a legend on the left that appears similar, but is abbreviated to include only tertiary and late cretaceous. (continue to left of below figure)
my table extends back to precambrian (before 570 Ma) and has useful correlation for various stages, e.g. the fact that the term tertiary extends from 65 Ma to 2 Ma and is followed by the quaternary. the tertiary is also split into paleogene and neogene, neogene can be split into miocene and pliocene, while pliocene is composed of piacenzian and zanclean with all the important boundaries marked in Ma. with my table, it is easy to correlate the single character information in the axis with names of geological periods. because some periods have the same first letter, significantly cretaceous, carboniferous, and cambrian, cretaceous has received the standard designation "K." having been aware of the cretaceous era and its spelling as well as the term "KT boundary" for quite some time, this was quite an epiphianic moment for me. anyhoo, by virue of my explanations here, it can be see that the graph choses to separate the tertiary into neogene and paleogene
/	having come from wisconsin, where growing up near the great lake of michigan and south of lake superior i would view temperature gradients that seemed to go down as i looked westward toward a colder minnesota, and even colder dakotas, and having moved to the san francisco bay area over 15 years ago as of 2006, where microclimates beat this concept home, i.e. of the effect of the differential of heat capacity between oceanic and continental regions. for perhaps the ultimate illustration of this, i offer the map at left of the pacific northwest and point out that portland gets more snow than seattle because of this effect!
i mentioned almost falling off my chair when i saw the "phanerozoic" graph above, perhaps partly due to the fact that the term "phanerozoic" also appears in the title of the research offered that introduced the transisition from small to large antarctic ice sheets above, but certainly because of the wonderfully complete record of climate change, which actually is intimately related to the definition of "phanerozoic." when i first received the below research in april of 2006, i had another falling off chair moment, having an inclination that perhaps someone had read my mind (or perhaps this webpage), but in my life, i have a number of such epiphanies of connection and have came up with the nonparanoid conclusion that i have had a communion with truth that i have instead shared with others. the "phanerozoic" graph presents to me a basis for further research, namely the investigation of the cause of three additional glacial periods (and perhaps the "snowball earth" phenomenon, i believe at 780 Ma) which may or may not be the same as the cause of the current one, but i had already been intimately aware of the latest glacial period in which we currently reside. the above research nicely connects the ideas presented of the differential heat capacity of continents versus oceanic regions and focuses the knowledge by investigating the opening of the drake passage which today remains the smallest body of water that separates antarctica from the rest of the werld, located between the southern tip of south america and the antarctic peninsula. a quick explanation of the above diagram is that oceanic mixing ratios were investigated using ¹⁴³Nd / ¹⁴⁴Nd (neodymium) isotope ratio oceanic mixing this investigation yeilded the conclusion that the opening of the passage and concomitant formation of the antarctic circumpolar current that largely thermally isolates antarctica from the rest of the werld occured about 41 million years ago (41 Ma or 41 My). antialarmists like to say "it's a cycle," and to this i want to say right now, WHAT'S THE CAUSE? WHAT'S THE CAUSE? WHAT'S THE CAUSE? note: i am using the term "antialarmist" because if i am accused of being an alarmist, and there is legitimite cause for alarm, SO BE IT!!! however, if there is something that can be done, then i am all for doing it, and if there is no cause for alarm, then this is a truth i want to discern. however, there are those, especially in the economics community who seem set against anything that smells like an alarm. to me they are ostriches with their head in the sand. calling them "conservatives" seems oxymoronic to me. if they were truly conservative with respect to the dangers of climate change, then they would want to err on the side of caution. this is something that fossil fuel driven society is FAR FAR FAR from getting close to accomplishing! that being said, ONWARD. at 41 Ma, antarctica had moved by continental drift, close enough to its modern position so as to isolate itself via the antarctic circumpolar current as discerned by ¹⁴³Nd / ¹⁴⁴Nd (neodymium) isotope ratio oceanic mixing in the above research.
	the greenhouse gas driving mechanism espoused by researchers whose graph is show at left had deeply troubled me because of the implications of complacency toward global warming. luckily, they left a loophole in the form of a minor comment about the antarctic circumpolar current. the trend clearly discernable in research given above shouts to me that today's antarctic ice sheet, with an average depth of at least around 1800 meters has reached a sort of saturation point and has plateaued over the last 800 000 years and is marked by very sharp fluctuations that i believe represent large atmospheric greenhouse gas input events that are soundly rectified by these so called meltwater events that i have seen spoken of in the literature. the mechanism suddenly occured to me: dry ice snow!


the GIN legend of above figure in actual scientific article	Is it a cycle, or is it an exponential curve? answer: YES!!!! at left, the Levitus figure shows a separation of COMPONENTS, including the cyclical SOLAR IRRADIANCE from other factors including volcanic aerosols that are nuclear winter type forcing agents that cools the climate. in biochemistry and medicine, i have encountered an irritating term: CURVILINEAR. this means you ASSUME linearity of a curve that is truly NONLINEAR because this represents a GOOD APPROXIMAtion. the blue line represents a simulation that OMITS the random volcanic aerosol contribution and the sinusoidal solar irradiance contribution that looks to me to be a beatifully EXPONENTIAL CURVE. the black line is the observed i.e. NO CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IS OMITTED. i have placed below the Levitus figure a figure depicting this very phenomenon, namely SOLAR IRRADIANCE please note, that this function VERY CLOSELY approximates the SINUSOIDAL i.e. for anyone confused here it LOOKS LIKE A SINE WAVE! furthermore, note the correlation between the valley (minima) seen around 1986 and note how that correlates to the black curve on the Levitus graph above. in fact, levitus clearly spells out the fact that they are well aware of the solar irradiance cycle and in fact, that obviously one has to remove THIS CYCLE from the equation to obtain the EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION that greenhouse forcing represents. the lower graph appeared in this issue of nature.
ABSTRACT (i.e. in a nutshell) Researchers focusing on the earth system are placing an overemphasis on atmospheric thermodynamics and have neglected the importance of the positioning of continental mass in determining global climactic state. Utilizing values given on page F-141 of the 69^th Edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, the hydrosphere (1.664 x 10²⁴g) outweighs the atmosphere (5.136 x 10 ²¹g) by 324.0 fold. The aim of this research is to assert that the positioning of the Antarctic continent very nearly centered at the South Pole is the major forcing agent inducing the current bipolar glacial state of the earth system. Recent research involving e _Nd isotope data places an initiation of the modern Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) at 41.3Ma (Mega anna, millions of years ago). Arctic Ocean seafloor cores have determined that a "Greenhouse" state including the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) was predominant prior to a "Transition" state occurring at approximately the same time as the opening of the ACC. A comparison of global oceanic heat content with ice cap heat of fusion yields a ratio of 47.3!! The mechanism for the production of the atmospheric CO ₂ levels observed during the tertiary period likely involves atmospheric events driven by thermal changes in the hyrdosphere due to significant cryospheric mass loss. These events will include significant dry ice precipitation!! When considering the coming impact of loss of Greenland continental ice in contrast to the loss of Arctic Ocean ice as seen in maps at right, one must realize that the thickness of Arctic Ocean versus that of continental Greenland differs by ONE THOUSAND FOLD! wyoming \| resources \| partitioning

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