Positive proof of Global Warming!!

[DeepThought]

I hope the 2nd DB annual Bikini contest participants will consider this environmental trend when taking their pictures.

 

[Oldsarge]

Hot damn! Jean Bernard sent me that photo a couple of months ago and I went & lost it. Thanx a million for "uncovering" it. What a hoot!

 

[trux]

rofl I definitely hope Paul Kotik and RoyNexus see it, and finally admit their great mistake of refusing the global warming theory!

 

[roy_nexus_6]

rofl I definitely hope Paul Kotik and RoyNexus see it, and finally admit their great mistake of refusing the global warming theory!

If there is hard scientific evidence for human caused "Global Warming", this is it !
I am a believer now. rofl rofl rofl @ Trux.

 

[Marwan]

Ironically speaking, this picture actually encourages people to screw up the environment , in a few more years, the world could be a nudist colony hows that for motivation keep up the good work..
cheers

 

[Oldsarge]

And you think seeing me wondering around in the buff is a good thing?????? :yack

:rofl

 

[Rod Steel]

rofl I definitely hope Paul Kotik and RoyNexus see it, and finally admit their great mistake of refusing the global warming theory!

This is, in fact, the most convincing evidence so far. It's sensational, now hangs by a thread, and progressively reveals that part of the anatomy most closely associated with dewey-eyed Environmentalism.

 

[Pocoshower]

And It is geting worst (better???) with El Nino conditions in the Pacific......

 

[Oldsarge]

Which is just fine by me because it will mean good rains this winter and just possibly the yellowtail will still be around to dive after in January/February when I finally get weekends back again. Last good Nino we had the ocean was warmer than the air!

 

[podge]

Good work sir, you found my old red pair I’ve been looking for those for 16 years I thought I left them in a field in Somerset after a particularly good Glastonbury Festival one year. rofl

 

[DeepThought]

For those of you who are not familier with Global warming, here's a short educational film from the 50's (2950's) that will answer all your questions.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fcezh2-jO8"]YouTube - Global Warming... or NONE LIKE IT HOT![/ame]

(it's a little garbled in the first few seconds)

Credits: Futurama

 

[Akoni]

cool video DeepThought

In a paper published Jan. 8 2004 in the journal Nature, UW Department of Geology and Geophysics graduate student Matthew Hornbach and professors Demian Saffer and Steve Holbrook propose that the source of the carbon is methane gas found beneath methane hydrate -- an ice-like substance consisting of frozen methane and water. Methane hydrate exists in vast quantities beneath the ocean floor and is believed to constitute the largest reservoir of organic carbon on Earth.

Hornbach, Saffer and Holbrook contend that a rise in ocean temperatures can convert the methane hydrate into methane gas. "Since methane is a greenhouse gas, substantial amounts of it released from beneath these hydrate deposits can contribute to global warming," Hornbach says.

For decades climate researchers have recognized that global warming events correspond with rapid spikes in atmospheric methane concentrations. But the UW scientists' discovery of widespread critically pressurized volumes of methane gas below continental margins may answer the often debated question of where the methane comes from and how it gets into the atmosphere so quickly.

Critically pressurized volumes of methane gas exist below many methane hydrate deposits, resulting in a potentially unstable ocean floor that is highly sensitive to changing conditions. Hornbach says any change in temperature or pressure at these critically pressured gas sites can cause hydrate to convert into methane gas. The highly pressurized gas can cause faults in the ocean floor to break apart, allowing the gas to escape.

"It's like a cork in a champagne bottle," he says. "If you shake up the champagne and build up enough pressure, the champagne bubbles can pop the cork."

Because these critically pressured gas volumes are found worldwide, Hornbach says large quantities of methane could be released during a global warming event.

"It is well documented that bottom-water temperatures in the ocean increase by approximately 5 degrees centigrade during periods of global warming," Hornbach says. "Our study indicates that perhaps as much as 2,000 gigatons (a single gigaton is one billion tons) of methane gas might escape from the ocean into the atmosphere during such warming events."

The UW scientists also contend that massive underwater landslides -- the relics of which sprawl across continental margins -- may be the direct result of ocean floor failures caused by overpressured methane gas.

Much of the project's data was collected at Blake Ridge in the Atlantic Ocean, located 300 miles off the coast of North Carolina. The scientists used soundwave technology to image beneath the ocean floor, Hornbach says, and dove some three kilometers below the surface of the Atlantic to find samples of methane gas leaks.

The research was funded jointly by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S Department of Energy.

I think we might have "sparked" the source for global warming but I think Earth herself is causing the biggest part of the sudden rise in temperature.