[opendtv] Re: Off topic: Researchers uncover potent greenhouse gas

By the way, I know a little about the La Jolla work; I applied for and
interviewed for an IT-like job at the company that a Scripps team formed to
implement the world's largest network of sea-based temperature reporting
devices.  They had about 400 in 1991, IIRC ...  The only alternative was
ship-based itinerant readings.

Sometimes, I know the answers to questions that I ask.



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Asunto: [opendtv] Re: Off topic: Researchers uncover potent greenhouse gas

The little Ice Age is the most recent climatic event in world history 
that has been documented and thoroughly studied. Here are some quotes 
from a piece about it and a link at the end:

"The Little Ice Age lasted roughly from 1300 to around 1870 and dropped 
temperatures in parts of the northern hemisphere by about 1 degree C.
<-->
In 1816, New England experienced its "year without summer," when many 
crops failed.
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The Little Ice Age is the only abrupt climate change that people have 
experienced in industrial times.
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Other abrupt changes, like the rapid cooling event that peaked 8,200 
years ago, could be far more disruptive.
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In the mid-1950s, a change of roughly 3 degrees C over more than 1,000 
years was deemed abrupt. In 1999, a team led by Jeffrey Severinghaus at 
the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., determined 
that the last ice age ended with a temperature burst that raised the 
thermostat at Greenland by some 9 degrees C over a mere decade."

For a better 'sense of scale' about time and temperature read all of the 
article here:

http://www.miqel.com/reading_library/archived_stories/ice-age-global-warming
-alert.html

Albert Manfredi wrote:
> (Still, the silver lining in attributing everything to CO2 specifically, 
is that it will put an end to the ridiculous, wanton waste of energy. 
That's
great, even if it doesn't reverse any global warming.)

 
 
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