Methane, and it's only March

[Old Rocks]

Arctic News: Record Methane in Arctic early March 2013

Methane levels for this period are at record highs in the Barents and Norwegian Seas, i.e. the highest levels ever recorded by IASI, which is is short for Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer, a Fourier transform spectrometer on board the European EUMETSAT Metop satellite that has supplied data since 2007

 

[whitehall]

The highest in a thousand years? Highest in a hundred years? Nope. It's the alleged highest in the past six years and presumably it has been lower for the last five. What a bunch of a-holes.

 

[Old Rocks]

120 x C02(e) and Hydroxyl

Atmospheric hydroxyl radicals (HO) oxidise methane (CH4), turning it into carbon dioxide (CO2) – the
comparatively less harmful GHG. High methane concentrations in the atmosphere, however, stunt
hydroxyl levels, reducing the capacity to perform this function. Increased global emissions of methane has caused a 26% decrease in hydroxyl in the atmosphere with the consequence that methane now persists longer in the atmosphere, before getting transformed into the less potent CO2. This means that concentrated releases of methane, as would occur over the Arctic have a far greater GHG potency than the IPCC assumption, rising to as much as 120x CO2 over the first 20 years [2]. Methane level rises in atmosphere Much of the methane is created in the northern hemisphere higher latitudes, and the level is much higher than the global average, so there is a natural flow of methane from there to the tropics (see diagram,

 

[Old Rocks]

The highest in a thousand years? Highest in a hundred years? Nope. It's the alleged highest in the past six years and presumably it has been lower for the last five. What a bunch of a-holes.

http://www.vmine.net/scienceinparliament/specials/12.pdf

The very rapid rise in greenhouse gases, and the near collapse of the protective cooling of the Arctic sea ice, is unprecedented in the past 2.5 million years. The last time there was explosive growth of methane, of the amount we are liable to encounter as the sea ice retreats, was in the PETM around 55 million years ago – the last major extinction event.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

#ShitNoOneCaresAbout

 

[Old Rocks]

But you will, in a few short years. And your children, 20 years down the world will be asking you, how could you be so ******* dumb?

 

[SSDD]

Arctic News: Record Methane in Arctic early March 2013

Methane levels for this period are at record highs in the Barents and Norwegian Seas, i.e. the highest levels ever recorded by IASI, which is is short for Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer, a Fourier transform spectrometer on board the European EUMETSAT Metop satellite that has supplied data since 2007

Really doesn't matter since methane can no more cause atmospheric warming than any of the other so called greenhouse gasses. Just more hysterical handwaving.

 

[gslack]

AAAAHHHH!!!!!!

Methane!!!!!!!!

Six year high?

AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!

Okay, panic over... Resume...

 

[Oddball]

Ask the folks up in Duluth how all that methane has affected them over the last few months.

 

[Mr. H.]

I much more enjoyed life before the internets.
Damn that Al Gore anyway.

 

[polarbear]

Ask the folks up in Duluth how all that methane has affected them over the last few months.

Get a load of that:

Now it`s about 2 heat lamps aimed at a spot which gets hotter, while the contention was that the cooler heat lamp is supposed to be able to heat the hotter heat lamp to even hotter temperatures...

It's not a contention, it's an observation of how the real world works. If I point a 40 watt desk lamp at a 60 watt desk lamp, the 60 watt desk lamp gets hotter.

Only if you subscribe to the retarded notion that all of the heat from a heat sink fin must radiate straight to the other fin. Of course, only a complete moron could claim something that outrageously stupid. Thus, you do claim that.

Bullshit. Bullshit. Bull-freaking-shit.

Again, you don't have a clue about what a black body is, or how it works.

Any other 'tards here want to back up PolarBear's nutty claim about how a dark object radiates more at the same temperature?

If only the world knew that they could make heat sinks more effective by painting them flat black. Once more, PolarBear has made an amazing new discovery in physics that the rest of humanity had somehow missed.

Yeah? How much you wanna bet?
Are you too dumb to try it out yourself?
And you are one of the few "of humanity had somehow missed" ,why that is so!!!
Carbon: candle soot emissivity 0.95
Glass emissivity 0.92

It`s not an "amazing discovery" either.
The fact that black objects radiate more heat per time has been used all over the place.
That`s why power transistor heat sinks are black.

That`s why high performance radiators are black:

Even a dummy like you should know that:
Why are car radiators painted black

Why are car radiators painted black?

Car radiators are painted black because it emits the most heat through radiation (highest emissivity). This improves the heat transfer out of the radiator when air isn't moving through the radiator.

Thermal radiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A black body is also a perfect emitter. The radiation of such perfect emitters is called black-body radiation. The ratio of any body's emission relative to that of a black body is the body's emissivity, so that a black body has an emissivity of unity.

 

[Saigon]

The highest in a thousand years? Highest in a hundred years? Nope. It's the alleged highest in the past six years and presumably it has been lower for the last five. What a bunch of a-holes.

In this case the a-holes might also have looked a little further back than you have....

 

[Saigon]

And the Arctic Sea Ice volume recent trend.....

 

[Saigon]

#ShitNoOneCaresAbout

Smart people care, because they understand that the likely impacts of a changing climate (drought, more severe & frequent storms, desertification, rising sea levels) are going to mean products cost more and that your taxes will have to rise to cover the damage.

Try and connect the dots here - rising temperatures means more drought. More drought means less vegetables and more expensive vegetables. More expensive vegetables mean more farmers going bankrupt.

Do you care yet?

 

[SSDD]

And the Arctic Sea Ice volume recent trend.....

So you have two numbers there...one a simulaiton...one extrapolated. No actual numbers. What is it about actual observed data that scares climate science so terribly....

I know, actual numbers mean an end to the gravy train.

 

[NoNukes]

#ShitNoOneCaresAbout

Then why are you and Noballs here?

 

[gslack]

The highest in a thousand years? Highest in a hundred years? Nope. It's the alleged highest in the past six years and presumably it has been lower for the last five. What a bunch of a-holes.

In this case the a-holes might also have looked a little further back than you have....

Context socko!!!!

 

[gslack]

#ShitNoOneCaresAbout

Smart people care, because they understand that the likely impacts of a changing climate (drought, more severe & frequent storms, desertification, rising sea levels) are going to mean products cost more and that your taxes will have to rise to cover the damage.

Try and connect the dots here - rising temperatures means more drought. More drought means less vegetables and more expensive vegetables. More expensive vegetables mean more farmers going bankrupt.

Do you care yet?

Smart people, well that leaves you out huh socko... Ladies and gentlemen, I present Saigon the Finland fraud, and the socko Band!!!!

 

[gslack]

#ShitNoOneCaresAbout

Then my are you and Noballs here?

Another one? Nice... You realize this is getting pathetically obvious now right?

ROFL..

 

[Saigon]

SSDD -

No actual numbers. What is it about actual observed data that scares climate science so terribly....

Firstly, the Cryosat data is ACTUAL, OBSERVED data, genius.

But here is some more ACTUAL observed data anyway

Arctic sea ice extent in March 2013 averaged 15.04 million square kilometers (5.81 million square miles). This is 710,000 kilometers (274,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average extent, and 610,000 square kilometers (236,000 square miles) above the record low for the month, which happened in 2006. Continuing a trend in recent winters, ice extent was near or below average levels throughout most of the Arctic, with the exception of higher extent in the Bering Sea.

http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/