Peat Bogs - Salvation From Ice Age? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: SgtRock
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 10, 2012, 02:47:51 pm
content: Greetings EEVBees:--See below link to interesting article about Peat Bogs and carbon sequestration.http://www.science.gu.se/english/News/News_detail//carbon-dioxide---our-salvation-from-a-future-ice-age--.cid1098998"Mankind’s emissions of fossil carbon and the resulting increase in temperature could prove to be our salvation from the next ice age. According to a new research article by researchers from the University of Gothenburg, the current increase in the extent of peatland is having the opposite effect, cooling down the climate."--Note to Michael Mann; You might want to have your email friends start trying to prevent these guys from being published, accuse them of being oil company shills and start a whisper campaign to ruin their scientific reputations. True they do not argue against CO2 forced AGW, but they do propose a theory which could throw a sabot into the machinery of the Government Carbon Jihad."Don't believe a word I say. Check! Do not trust the opinions of Scientists. Trust the data."Christopher Monckton 1952 -Best RegardsClear Ether

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 10, 2012, 04:48:23 pm
content: I have heard this theory before, might well be right. The problem with the continuing burning of oil is the money that sends to the middle east and what the nut jobs there do with the money, spend it on arm's which in the end threaten all of us. I am sure that is the main reason the politicians want us to stop using so much oil, they know what weapons they have been selling the Arabs.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 10, 2012, 05:18:58 pm
content: It's also no reason to forget to be careful with the climate, after all, we only have one planet (while NASA's space program is cut down, that is.)Here is the actual paper:http://www.mires-and-peat.net/map10/map_10_08.pdfMy only concern, it is published by a potentially non-neutral source, the "International Mire Conservation Group and International Peat Society".

author: SgtRock
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: November 10, 2012, 05:58:47 pm
content: Dear Tom66:--I do not quite understand your contention that suddenly a rigorous scientific paper by two distinguished professors at the University of Gothenberg must be hinky because it was reprinted in a certain periodical published by Tree, make that Peat Huggers. This paper will be subject to close scrutiny, and if it is glaring fraud like Michael Mann's Hokey Schtick, it will soon be outed."I've found out so much about electricity that I've reached the point where I understand nothing and can explain nothing."Pieter van Musschenbroek 1692 -1761Best RegardsClear Ether

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 10, 2012, 06:55:11 pm
content: I am by no means claiming it is a complete fraud. However, a lot of scientific effort goes into getting your paper published in the first place. There are two reasons it is in this particular journal:a) it's special interest (small audience) -- most likely; ORb) it's easier to get it publishedI may be able to "ask a geophysicist" about this.

author: poptones
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: November 10, 2012, 07:20:13 pm
content: It's funny how global warming is a "myth" except when someone publishes a paper saying something is preventing global warming from being a problem...

author: andersm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: November 10, 2012, 07:59:05 pm
content: The calculations in the paper assume no human presence, so it's all very speculative. The loss of arable land would also have huge implications (a lot of farmland in the region is drained peatland).