On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:37:07 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote:

John Mazor wrote:

So there's a strong link between rises in temperature and the greenhouse gas CO2. From
one of the websites you so blithely blew off:

"The atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, have increased since
pre-industrial times from 280 part per million (ppm) to 377.5 ppm (2004 Carbon Dioxide
Information Analysis Center), a 34% increase. Carbon dioxide concentrations in the
atmosphere are the highest in 650,000 years. Carbon dioxide is a by-product of the burning
of fossil fuels, such as gasoline in an automobile or coal in a power plant generating
electricity."

And CO2 is a by-product of a warming ocean. Please refute the following
point by point. :-)

http://www.john-daly.com/oceanco2/oceanco2.htm

Just follow the link below. It says almost all.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php...assy-argument/

The ocean is a natural CO2 sink. It is absorbing a lot of CO2, but as
it warms it absorbs less. That CO2 is converted into phosphates and
eventually ends up as lime. This is why, historically over the past
few hundred thousand years, the temperature rise has led the CO2 rise.
Now the CO2 rise is leading. However it's likely the oceans will warm
enough to let the frozen Methane Hydrate evaporate (it goes from solid
to gas with no liquid intermediate stage) The continental shelves and
deep ocean contain enough of the stuff to make the CO2 problem look
miniscule in comparison and is believed to have been the ultimate
cause of the "Permian extinction". Methane is a far more effective
greenhouse gas than CO2.

Roger (K8RI)