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Skriven 2005-03-26 16:40:56 av Al Jacobs (1:396/17.0)
  Kommentar till text 10265 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
Ärende: RE: GASOLENE PRICES ???
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Hello John Hull,

->> But I suppose John Hull knows better.  Did you even bother to read
 ->> the article?  Your expertise is in climatology?  Scientific
 ->> modeling? Well, then.  I'm impressed!  BTW, This is the second
 ->> subject to which you've replied to me.  You were wrong the first
 ->> time.  I think you're batting a thousand.

 RJ>> From what I have seen Mr. Jacobs, John Hull is the Professor Irwin
 RJ>> Corey (the World's Foremost Authority) of FIDO.

 AJ> Haha.  But Corey was daft AND funny.  <g>

JH> Go ahead, have your fun.

Thanks.  BTW, I'm still waiting for your answers.  

On climatology, meteorology and scientific modeling:

The National Climatic Data Center, 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce
NCDC: Global Warming
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov

  Due to the enormous complexity of the atmosphere, the most useful
  tools for gauging future changes are 'climate models'. These are
  computer-based mathematical models which simulate, in three
  dimensions, the climate's behavior, its components and their
  interactions.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html#Q1




National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
U.S. Department of Commerce
http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/About/about.html

NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information 
Service (NESDIS) is dedicated to providing timely access to global
environmental data from satellites and other sources to promote,
protect, and enhance the Nation's economy, security, environment, 
and quality of life.  To fulfill its responsibilities, NESDIS acquires 
and manages the Nation's operational environmental satellites, 
provides data and information services, and conducts related 
research.



Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and its potential
impact on future climate is an issue of global economic and political
significance.  The need to understand how carbon cycles through 
the Earth system is therefore critically important to our ability to
predict any future global change.  Recent policy debates have
demonstrated the need for a comprehensive, unbiased scientific
understanding of sources and sinks of carbon dioxide on continental
and regional scales, and how sinks might change naturally over time or
be enhanced by human activities. 

U.S. Global Change Research Program
Carbon Cycle Science Program
http://www.carboncyclescience.gov



Arctic Carbon a Potential Wild Card in Climate Change Scenarios
National Science Foundation Press Release 04-056

April 20, 2004

"If current warming trends in the Arctic continue, we can expect to
see more of the old carbon now sequestered in northern soils enter 
the carbon cycle as carbon dioxide. This will act as a positive 
feedback, tending to enhance the greenhouse effect and accelerate 
global warming," said Ronald Benner, an NSF-funded researcher 
at the University of South Carolina.

[...]

The new findings complement recently published work by Laurence 
C. Smith, an NSF-funded researcher at the University of California,
Los Angeles, indicating that massive Siberian peat bogs, widely 
known as the permanently frozen home of untold kilometers of moss 
and uncountable hordes of mosquitoes, also are huge repositories for 
gases that are thought to play an important role in the Earth's 
climate balance.

Those gases, carbon dioxide and methane, are known to trap heat in 
the Earth's atmosphere, but the enormous amounts of the gases 
contained in the bogs haven't previously been accounted for in 
climate-change models.

Ronald Benner, University of South Carolina 
(803) 777-9561
benner@biol.sc.edu

Laurence C. Smith, University of California, Los Angeles 
(310) 825-3154, 
lsmith@geog.ucla.edu

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100370


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