Revelle factor incorrect: Massive global ocean pH drop if Obama's agenda not followed

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Wednesday July 22, 2009 · 11:35 AM PDT

2009/07/22 · 11:35

Some analysis was carried out with the Revelle factor and the uptake factor of oceanographic fame, both of which solve for the pH of the ocean based on CO2sys by Ernie Lewis and Doug Wallace from ORNL, extended to create a nonlinear differential equation that governs sea water pH relative to dissolved inorganic carbon concentrations (DIC) which changes with fugacity changes and depth, it was found that these two factors solved for about 103 GT of Total inorganic carbon in the top 1000 metres of the ocean. This number did not change much from year to year and equilibrium to equilibrium. This runs counter to the experimental evidence in Susan Libes text, ocean biogeochemistry which references work at Princeton on experimental data, which shows the shallow water above the knee of the thermocline holds about 800 GT of carbon as of 2006 globally.

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Thursday May 28, 2009 · 8:51 AM PDT

2009/05/28 · 08:51

Water vapour and liquid water are highly underrated in analyzing climate. All the talk is about CO2, methane and CFCs etc..., why they always say that water is a greenhouse gas, and that it is the most important one, they never tell you why or what about it makes it a very unique GHG, and how water vapour and water vapour alone, might curtail the extremely long fat tail of the Nature Journal climate sensitivity probability distributions for the likely or probable temperature increase for a doubling of CO2 and the entrained methane increase in the atmosphere.

I describe that the heat capacity of water and its ability to act as a substantial heat sink and capacitance for heat, and the atmospheres ability to hold extra evaporated water vapour exponentially as it heats up and subsequent precipitation really cools things down and clears the air.

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Thursday April 30, 2009 · 5:45 PM PDT

2009/04/30 · 17:45

There are three different scenarios that i consider here. The do nothing approach, much akin to the Harper approach of 20% below 2006 levels by 2020 and convince California not to change the economic climate towards supporting Earths climate and its sustainability; the 20% below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80% below 1990 levels by 2050 being adopted possibly by bill c311 and possibly by copenhagen in October; thirdly i consider the case where we try to get back to 350 ppm levels of CO2 at ground level by 2050 or move in that direction, perhaps reaching it by 2070.

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Tuesday April 21, 2009 · 8:32 PM PDT

2009/04/21 · 20:32

This theta-logistic curve describes the momentum and inertia of the total CO2 emissions curve, and that CO2 emissions will decline with a declining economy and that we are reaching the carrying capacity of the earth in terms of CO2 which is an indicator of ocean acidity, lake ecosystem sustainability, and eroding limestone deposits, as well there are hidden perils; the siberian and arctic tundra could hit a level of methane release we cannot return back from if we don't act on CO2 now and prevent the three degree rise for every doubling of CO2 partial pressure at sea level.

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Monday March 16, 2009 · 7:58 AM PDT

2009/03/16 · 07:58

What i am trying to accomplish in this article is to show the ignorance in the internet availability of information about the amount of carbon actually in the oceans, predicted either from extensive 1979 OceanSecs ocean survey data, which MUST underestimate the situation given calcium carbonate chemistry today, atmospheric concentrations, and current trends from NOAA, Mauna Loa, and also due to other offhand remarks in other papers that could prove useful at assessing calcium carbonate and carbon in the oceans.

I wanted to show some realistic assumptions about centroid data, and steady state assuming diffusion within a year between the top 1000 metres of the ocean and the atmosphere. And it seems the depths may be more dense in CO2 than we realize.

I have tried to keep my simulation as bare bones simple as possible... an impossible approximation, but approximations need to be made based on centroids and facts and measurements and theory. I have used all four, but the sampling frequency of the ocean is nowhere near sufficient. In reality we need another up to date Oceansecs ocean survey, probably carried out by the navy and made public as soon as possible. Great Pity about the recent satellite!

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