Nuke Tests To Be Blamed Again

bob b

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It appears to me that the atmospheric nuclear tests are about to once again be blamed for global warming.

From Science Daily:
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Source: University of Leicester
Posted: March 14, 2006

Greenhouse Theory Smashed By Biggest Stone; Is Global-warming Due To Humanity? Or Are Other Factors At Work?
A new theory to explain global warming was revealed at a meeting at the University of Leicester (UK) and is being considered for publication in the journal "Science First Hand". The controversial theory has nothing to do with burning fossil fuels and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. According to Vladimir Shaidurov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the apparent rise in average global temperature recorded by scientists over the last hundred years or so could be due to atmospheric changes that are not connected to human emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of natural gas and oil. Shaidurov explained how changes in the amount of ice crystals at high altitude could damage the layer of thin, high altitude clouds found in the mesosphere that reduce the amount of warming solar radiation reaching the earth's surface.

Shaidurov has used a detailed analysis of the mean temperature change by year for the last 140 years and explains that there was a slight decrease in temperature until the early twentieth century. This flies in the face of current global warming theories that blame a rise in temperature on rising carbon dioxide emissions since the start of the industrial revolution. Shaidurov, however, suggests that the rise, which began between 1906 and 1909, could have had a very different cause, which he believes was the massive Tunguska Event, which rocked a remote part of Siberia, northwest of Lake Baikal on the 30th June 1908.

The Tunguska Event, sometimes known as the Tungus Meteorite is thought to have resulted from an asteroid or comet entering the earth's atmosphere and exploding. The event released as much energy as fifteen one-megaton atomic bombs. As well as blasting an enormous amount of dust into the atmosphere, felling 60 million trees over an area of more than 2000 square kilometres. Shaidurov suggests that this explosion would have caused "considerable stirring of the high layers of atmosphere and change its structure." Such meteoric disruption was the trigger for the subsequent rise in global temperatures.

Global warming is thought to be caused by the "greenhouse effect". Energy from the sun reaches the earth's surface and warms it, without the greenhouse effect most of this energy is then lost as the heat radiates back into space. However, the presence of so-called greenhouse gases at high altitude absorb much of this energy and then radiate a proportion back towards the earth's surface. Causing temperatures to rise.

Many natural gases and some of those released by conventional power stations, vehicle and aircraft exhausts act as greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide, natural gas, or methane, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are all potent greenhouse gases. Carbon dioxide and methane are found naturally in the atmosphere, but it is the gradual rise in levels of these gases since the industrial revolution, and in particular the beginning of the twentieth century, that scientists have blamed for the gradual rise in recorded global temperature. Attempts to reverse global warming, such as the Kyoto Protocol, have centred on controlling and even reducing CO2 emissions.

However, the most potent greenhouse gas is water, explains Shaidurov and it is this compound on which his study focuses. According to Shaidurov, only small changes in the atmospheric levels of water, in the form of vapour and ice crystals can contribute to significant changes to the temperature of the earth's surface, which far outweighs the effects of carbon dioxide and other gases released by human activities. Just a rise of 1% of water vapour could raise the global average temperature of Earth's surface more then 4 degrees Celsius.

The role of water vapour in controlling our planet's temperature was hinted at almost 150 years ago by Irish scientist John Tyndall. Tyndall, who also provided an explanation as to why the sky is blue, explained the problem: "The strongest radiant heat absorber, is the most important gas controlling Earth's temperature. Without water vapour, he wrote, the Earth's surface would be 'held fast in the iron grip of frost'." Thin clouds at high altitude allow sunlight to reach the earth's surface, but reflect back radiated heat, acting as an insulating greenhouse layer.

Water vapour levels are even less within our control than CO2 levels. According to Andrew E. Dessler of the Texas A & M University writing in 'The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change', "Human activities do not control all greenhouse gases, however. The most powerful greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is water vapour, he says, "Human activities have little direct control over its atmospheric abundance, which is controlled instead by the worldwide balance between evaporation from the oceans and precipitation."

As such, Shaidurov has concluded that only an enormous natural phenomenon, such as an asteroid or comet impact or airburst, could seriously disturb atmospheric water levels, destroying persistent so-called 'silver', or noctilucent, clouds composed of ice crystals in the high altitude mesosphere (50 to 85km). The Tunguska Event was just such an event, and coincides with the period of time during which global temperatures appear to have been rising the most steadily - the twentieth century. There are many hypothetical mechanisms of how this mesosphere catastrophe might have occurred, and future research is needed to provide a definitive answer.

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Professor Vladimir Shaidurov is an expert in Numerical Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, and the Corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences. For development of multigrid methods he achieved the highest Russian prize in science (together with Profs Fedorenko and Bachvalov) - the State Prize (2004). He visited University of Leicester in April 2005.

Shaidurov's paper "Atmospheric hypotheses of Earth's global warming" is under consideration for publication in the journal "Science First Hand," Published by Russian Academy of Sciences (Editor-in-Chief, Acad. Dobretsov, Vice-President Russian Academy of Sciences, President of Siberian Branch RAS). A preprint is available online at http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0510042 which was published originally as University of Leicester Technical Report No. MA-05-15.
 

hatsoff

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Well, there's no question that aerosols, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses are being emitted into the atmosphere by humans. There's also no question that these gasses are in turn causing a greenhouse effect on the earth. However, to what extent this occurs is still largely unknown. It's only been since 1978 that we've been able to collect accurate temperature data. As time passes, all this speculation will begin to round out into fact.

Incidentally, thanks for another spam thread by bob b!
 

bob b

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hatsoff said:
Well, there's no question that aerosols, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses are being emitted into the atmosphere by humans. There's also no question that these gasses are in turn causing a greenhouse effect on the earth. However, to what extent this occurs is still largely unknown. It's only been since 1978 that we've been able to collect accurate temperature data. As time passes, all this speculation will begin to round out into fact.

Incidentally, thanks for another spam thread by bob b!

Thanks. I am dedicated to the education of our lost sheep.
 

Jukia

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Did I miss something? bob b, does your latest cut and paste article refer to nuclear tests at all???
 

Jukia

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bob b said:
To Jukia 2+2=???

No, I am serious, did the article mention anything about nukes? I think I understand your logic (if the Siberian meteor could start global warming why not nuclear tests) I am just making sure I read the article correctly.
 

fool

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Bob, the article you posted did not mention nuclear tests. It refered to a meteor exploding in Siberia that wasn't a nuke, and wasn't a test.
 

Jukia

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fool said:
Bob, the article you posted did not mention nuclear tests. It refered to a meteor exploding in Siberia that wasn't a nuke, and wasn't a test.

Ah, but see his response to me. Assuming that this Russian scientist (imagine a Russian!) is correct then the Siberian meteor began global warming and since nuclear tests are, at least apparently in bob b's eyes, the equivilent, then perhaps global warming has been continued by the nuke tests that have taken place. But you have to make the jump from meteor to atmospheric nuclear test. Easy if you are used to making the jump from evolution to abiogenesis etc.
 

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Jukia said:
Ah, but see his response to me. Assuming that this Russian scientist (imagine a Russian!) is correct then the Siberian meteor began global warming and since nuclear tests are, at least apparently in bob b's eyes, the equivilent, then perhaps global warming has been continued by the nuke tests that have taken place. But you have to make the jump from meteor to atmospheric nuclear test. Easy if you are used to making the jump from evolution to abiogenesis etc.
Or, He's saying that it wasn't a meteor, but a 1908 Russian nuke test. The bomb worked much better than expected and sadly the scientists were standing much too close, setting the Russian nuke program back 40 years.
Yeah, I think that's it.
 

Jukia

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fool said:
Or, He's saying that it wasn't a meteor, but a 1908 Russian nuke test. The bomb worked much better than expected and sadly the scientists were standing much too close, setting the Russian nuke program back 40 years.
Yeah, I think that's it.

Hmmm, could be, but even I would not think that bob b would go that way.
 

bowhunter

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And so do evolutionismists, they claim we cannot trust radiometric dating now because the nuclear tests in the 50's disrupted the timeline, however, they don't get the fact if there is a disruption in "new" material, there would also be in "old" material as well, because nuclear processes dont just stop at the new. If something is placed near radioactive material, that something will become radioactive.
 

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bowhunter said:
And so do evolutionismists, they claim we cannot trust radiometric dating now because the nuclear tests in the 50's disrupted the timeline, however, they don't get the fact if there is a disruption in "new" material, there would also be in "old" material as well, because nuclear processes dont just stop at the new. If something is placed near radioactive material, that something will become radioactive.
Wow.
You're not even trying to make sense anymore.
 
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