Q:Why should temperatures rise as human population does?
A:Because the weather stations taking the readings get surrounded by urbania.
Meteorologists have this, and other major disagreements with the climatologists. No small part of which is that the best computer weather models simply can't go beyond 7-10 days with useable accuracy, and as climatology is the study of weather patterns this doesn't give a boost of confidence for climatological computer models.
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Originally Posted by BrentBaker
...The CBS Evening News skipped, as Rush Limbuagh predicted the media would, a new study in which, as outlined in a press release, “the widely accepted (albeit unproven) theory that manmade global warming will accelerate itself by creating more heat-trapping clouds is challenged this month in new research from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.” The posting on the university's site summarized the study published in a scientific journal: “Instead of creating more clouds, individual tropical warming cycles that served as proxies for global warming saw a decrease in the coverage of heat-trapping cirrus clouds, says Dr. Roy Spencer, a principal research scientist in UAHuntsville's Earth System Science Center.”
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How many underwater volcanoes are there?
Underwater - Submarine Volcanoes
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Originally Posted by crystallinks
...Currently there are over five thousand active volcanoes underwater varying from ones larger than any on the surface to cones no larger than an automobile. The net reslut of this action is thermal heating of the oceans, at key positions, which in turn reaches the surfaceto be carried aloft into the atmosphere to become part of our surface weather pattern system. As the oceans are heated winds of a high velocity are created and driven over the land areas due to temperature differential.
In the Pacific Ocean there are ocean basins - volcanoes, of which there are estimated to be about 20,000 on the ocean bottoms of the world.
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So not only don't we not know exactly how many underwater volcanoes, before or now, we don't know how much CO2, or any other gases, they emit or what their contribution is to the heating via the oceans. So in fact, the heating may be bottom up in addition or instead of top down.
We have a lot more scientific reasons to reduce reliance on fossil fuels than CO2.
