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YGBFkiddinme, Low Emissions Grass?
From Nature Magazine this pearl of pulchritude: “The solution, says Michael Peters, an agronomist at CIAT and leader of the team that has developed the low-emissions grass, is to encourage ammonium to persist in the soil for longer, by suppressing microbial … Continue reading
Gravity Signals of Extensional Sialic Crustal Regimes
I have always loved the poorly named Great Basin of the Western United States. Yes, its maze of lowlands held a lot of glacial meltwater during the last glacial maximum before letting it percolate out to the Columbia and the Sea … Continue reading
The Hawaiian/Emperor Seamounts and How Island Arcs are Formed
Ever wonder why offshore island arcs should form at random spots in the oceans? No? Don’t worry, its a far fig newton. We offer here the suggestion that the locations are not random, that island arc trenches and probably spreading ridges and … Continue reading
Granite Rafts
Continents are granite rafts. We believe that granite is formed when thoroughly hydrated ocean floor sinks at a subduction zone or trench, often at the edge of a continent. When it sinks deep enough it gets cooked at very high … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Geology, Gravity Anomalies
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Dude, It’s Not About Carbon Dioxide
We know a lot about Carbon dioxide in a jar. We know the wavelengths it prefers to absorb and emit photons. We know it tends to mix efficiently with other gasses. We know it has a nearly magical affinity for … Continue reading
I Deny
“Denier!”, in the tone of apostasy. Well, call me the apostate, because I deny. I deny that there is any reasonable scientific evidence that Carbon dioxide will cause catastrophic global warming. I deny this as a naturalist and serious student … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Carbon Cycle, Carbon Dioxide Loves to Swim, Carbon Prohibitionists, Carbon Theology, Climate, Climate Change, Global Warming, Global Warming Denial, Religion
Tagged Carbon, Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide, Carbon Management, Carbon Prohibitionism, Carbon Prohibitionists, environment, Global Warming Denial
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The Dim Sum, Microbial Dark Matter and Wine Dark Seas
The oceans are a microbial soup I like to call the Dim Sum. It is an appropriate pun because it is both dim in the sense we don’t understand it, and a dim sum in that we cannot describe it mathematically. The … Continue reading
A Quick Review of the Carbon Cycle
Quick review of the carbon cycle magnitude per NASA in Gt.: Ocean to atmosphere 90 Microbial respiration land 60 Plant respiration land 60 Human 9 ——— Total surface to atmosphere 219 Photosynthesis land 123 Atmosphere to Ocean 92 ——- Total atmosphere … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Cycle, Carbon Dioxide Loves to Swim, Climate Change, Geography, Oceanography
Tagged Atmosphere, Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide, NASA, PH, Weathering
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