In my meanderings through the subject of climate change, I've found a great new alarmist cause the Left can embrace without fear of being proven wrong yet again.....
If anything can unite the world under fascism, this should do it.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.co...d-as-source-of-more-than-half-of-earths-heat/
So the internal generation of heat via nuclear reactions is immense. And it won't quit any time soon.
So political causes, great and small, can, practically forever, call this great problem the one that correct politics will solve for mankind.
People sleeping in crude cardboard tents along our little creeks or the Los Angeles river, on a hot summer night, can post comments on facebook about why politicians don't stop the nuclear earth now. Grand conspiracies about super-rich hermits pumping nuclear waste down oil bores..... dump and pump socialist entrepreneurs declaring the doom of entire industries via government regulation of nuclear isotopes and buying the devalued stock before reversing rhetoric....
while I have been musing, elsewhere in this forum, about how natural cycles must exist within the earth's molten core..... currents of molten materials.... driven by chemical forces of diffusion and physical forces of gravitation.... have created a geologic cycle of rising and falling volcanism at the surface, evident in earth history/rock formations. +
"volcanos" have always "been there", even when the earth was as a whole, molten. Chemical forces of attraction/repulsion naturally drive rates in chemistry. Heavy elements sink faster towards the core. Uranium and Thorium, for example. Some experts rank Thorium as much more abundant than Uranium. Potassium is relatively light.... it rises... it concentrates just under the lower solid layers of the earth's crust. Some experts say Potassium is the major internal heat generator. But, always, when "hot spots" naturally occur, the local rock (molten, plutonic rock) begins to rise into the crust, melting it's way upward. When it reaches water.... a powerful explosion can occur.... a caldera blowout.
So, some plutons are of near-surface origin, and have little valuable ore content.... but plutons originating deeper, in the iron core.... in concentrations of Uranium and Thorium, will bring valuable minerals (gold, etc) to the surface with them.
I've been going over mineral events in the US West.... the Great Basin, primarily..... and here's the scoop....
plate tectonics ran a molten layer between solid crustal layers around 30 to 15 million years ago, during a general uplift event geologically. Towards the end, the plate tectonics reversed, and most of the molten rock actually flowed back out towards the Pacific, resulting in stretching and subsidence within the Basin geological area. As the overlying rock thinned, a secondary epoch of volcanism ensued, just within the past few thousand years. Most of the mineralization in the West occurred early on in the 30-15 Mya era, but a few notable recent volcanic events created some mineral deposits that became quite famous.... Silver Reef, near St. George, for example.... resulted from volcanos within the past 50,000 years which "dusted" the surface with ash rich in silver, copper, molybdenum, vanadium, and uranium. The ash was acidic, chloride in nature, and resembles the famous San Francisco (Utah) silver ore. It was water-soluble chlorides, carried into the groundwater, and over an old river bed where there were buried, petrifying trees. The carbon (reduced to elemental C) reacted with the solutions to create petrified trees of silver.
At any rate, as I will develop the theme in later posts.... I believe the cyclic volcanism phenomena to be the main cause of global warming today. We are on the rise, thermally, from our own radioactivity, geologically speaking.
My first bit of evidence for this I have already linked in another thread.... a published, peer-reviewed scientific report done by global warmist alarmists, who without thinking reported that ocean outgassing is going on at about five times the rate we are producing CO2 via all our anthropogenic combustion....
what could be the cause of deep ocean warming??? The best guess is increasing internal fission. If this is true, there is little we can do about the rising sea levels, and @Red will just have to find salt marshes resulting from higher sea levels to love.
At any rate, one of the major implications of warmer seas is altered climate.... It remains to be seen how much warming has or is going to happen, and how that will affect us. But expect more rain and flooding, generally..... and more polar moisture. Whether that will mean accumulating or declining polar ice is up for grabs, but sea ice will decline, if the sea water is warmer, of course.
If anything can unite the world under fascism, this should do it.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.co...d-as-source-of-more-than-half-of-earths-heat/
So the internal generation of heat via nuclear reactions is immense. And it won't quit any time soon.
So political causes, great and small, can, practically forever, call this great problem the one that correct politics will solve for mankind.
People sleeping in crude cardboard tents along our little creeks or the Los Angeles river, on a hot summer night, can post comments on facebook about why politicians don't stop the nuclear earth now. Grand conspiracies about super-rich hermits pumping nuclear waste down oil bores..... dump and pump socialist entrepreneurs declaring the doom of entire industries via government regulation of nuclear isotopes and buying the devalued stock before reversing rhetoric....
while I have been musing, elsewhere in this forum, about how natural cycles must exist within the earth's molten core..... currents of molten materials.... driven by chemical forces of diffusion and physical forces of gravitation.... have created a geologic cycle of rising and falling volcanism at the surface, evident in earth history/rock formations. +
"volcanos" have always "been there", even when the earth was as a whole, molten. Chemical forces of attraction/repulsion naturally drive rates in chemistry. Heavy elements sink faster towards the core. Uranium and Thorium, for example. Some experts rank Thorium as much more abundant than Uranium. Potassium is relatively light.... it rises... it concentrates just under the lower solid layers of the earth's crust. Some experts say Potassium is the major internal heat generator. But, always, when "hot spots" naturally occur, the local rock (molten, plutonic rock) begins to rise into the crust, melting it's way upward. When it reaches water.... a powerful explosion can occur.... a caldera blowout.
So, some plutons are of near-surface origin, and have little valuable ore content.... but plutons originating deeper, in the iron core.... in concentrations of Uranium and Thorium, will bring valuable minerals (gold, etc) to the surface with them.
I've been going over mineral events in the US West.... the Great Basin, primarily..... and here's the scoop....
plate tectonics ran a molten layer between solid crustal layers around 30 to 15 million years ago, during a general uplift event geologically. Towards the end, the plate tectonics reversed, and most of the molten rock actually flowed back out towards the Pacific, resulting in stretching and subsidence within the Basin geological area. As the overlying rock thinned, a secondary epoch of volcanism ensued, just within the past few thousand years. Most of the mineralization in the West occurred early on in the 30-15 Mya era, but a few notable recent volcanic events created some mineral deposits that became quite famous.... Silver Reef, near St. George, for example.... resulted from volcanos within the past 50,000 years which "dusted" the surface with ash rich in silver, copper, molybdenum, vanadium, and uranium. The ash was acidic, chloride in nature, and resembles the famous San Francisco (Utah) silver ore. It was water-soluble chlorides, carried into the groundwater, and over an old river bed where there were buried, petrifying trees. The carbon (reduced to elemental C) reacted with the solutions to create petrified trees of silver.
At any rate, as I will develop the theme in later posts.... I believe the cyclic volcanism phenomena to be the main cause of global warming today. We are on the rise, thermally, from our own radioactivity, geologically speaking.
My first bit of evidence for this I have already linked in another thread.... a published, peer-reviewed scientific report done by global warmist alarmists, who without thinking reported that ocean outgassing is going on at about five times the rate we are producing CO2 via all our anthropogenic combustion....
what could be the cause of deep ocean warming??? The best guess is increasing internal fission. If this is true, there is little we can do about the rising sea levels, and @Red will just have to find salt marshes resulting from higher sea levels to love.
At any rate, one of the major implications of warmer seas is altered climate.... It remains to be seen how much warming has or is going to happen, and how that will affect us. But expect more rain and flooding, generally..... and more polar moisture. Whether that will mean accumulating or declining polar ice is up for grabs, but sea ice will decline, if the sea water is warmer, of course.
