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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:00 AM Original message |
In which I post an abstract question about the maximum: |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
1. yes.... |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:10 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Are you high? |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:11 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. nah, but that sounds like a good idea.... |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:14 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Alright |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:27 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. yes.... |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:34 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. One of the recent threads floating around here threw out the number of 600 years to return to a |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:41 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. the capacity of the planet's water to absorb energy... |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:53 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. So this would seem to imply almost a buffering lag |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 01:17 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. not really-- think of the planetary specific heat like it's a sponge... |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 01:33 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I know that water is the global heat sink |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 01:50 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. greenhouse gases don't really"store" heat.... |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 02:05 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Duh, sorry |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 02:24 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. hmmm..., do you remember this...? |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 10:41 AM Response to Reply #19 |
23. I totally remember that, yeah |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-12-07 01:06 AM Response to Reply #15 |
39. I, for one, loved the sponge analogy. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-12-07 02:15 AM Response to Reply #39 |
41. Mike c's a university prof |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:23 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Are they implying thatthe clouds of smoke drifting off the many Bongs |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:25 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I think the implication was that mike_c was saying something so profound |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:52 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Still drinking foamless beer (even if it means we |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:53 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Taliskers |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 08:37 AM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Now there's a man with good taste. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 10:42 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. I'm not a man |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 10:49 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Oops. Trapped by a colloquialism yet again. |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 10:58 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. No worries |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:20 AM Response to Original message |
5. Speaking as someone who doesn't even know the meaning of |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:27 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. I hear what you're saying with the weather stations |
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skids (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 07:04 AM Response to Reply #5 |
20. If you want to get into that level of detail... |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-12-07 01:29 AM Response to Reply #20 |
40. Thanks skids. I have long wanted the info on where to go to see all the |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
22. Amid all the talk about specific heat , don't forget the role of oceans as a carbon sink |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 10:46 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. That's the answer I'm looking for: |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 10:52 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. that's part of the hysteresis.... |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:01 AM Response to Reply #27 |
29. A Sisyphean task, no doubt. |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:07 AM Response to Reply #29 |
31. who you callin' a sisyphean, beeotch...? |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:20 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. You, ya hippie |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:07 AM Response to Reply #22 |
30. On, and it looks like a century is the half-life for CO2 in the atmosphere |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:20 AM Response to Reply #30 |
34. Yep. |
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Viking12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:17 AM Response to Reply #22 |
32. Technical point: CO2 doesn't convert solar radiation to infrared. |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:21 AM Response to Reply #32 |
35. Correction noted, thanks. |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 11:38 AM Response to Reply #32 |
36. I thought GHGs emitted in the IR spectrum.... |
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Viking12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-11-07 12:07 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. You got it.... |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-12-07 01:01 AM Response to Original message |
38. This may not be the best discussion of the Climate Changes ever posted, but it is the best one that |
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