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In article <1991Jan8.021432.29602@amd.com>, phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
> In article <5185@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
# |If you increase CO2 in the atmosphere, you increase the amount
# |in solution in sea water.  (Equilibrium problem).  Increasing
# |the amount in solution in sea water increases the amount deposited
# |as carbonates.  (Another equilibrium problem, since carbonates
# |can also give up CO2 as the solution loses CO2).
# 
# This is a good occasion for me to comment that James Burke (whom
# I used to respect) just did a show "After the Warming" where he
# basically assumes that global warming is a proven fact and
# extrapolates the results.
# 
# One of his claims is that right now the global ocean currents,
# of which the Gulf Stream is a part, has sea water evaporating
# in the Atlantic and sinking from getting much saltier and heavier
# and then traveling near the bottom for a while, during which
# time it deposits a lot of CO2 (presumably in the form of carbonates).
# 
# He says that global warming will melt the ice caps and make the
# sea water much less salty, preventing it from sinking and therefore
# make the CO2 disposal problem much worse.

That's the first mistake.  Even complete melting of all the ice caps
and glaciers on Earth wouldn't make more than a 10% difference in
salinity of the oceans, even if ALL the water ended up in the oceans,
since the ice caps & glaciers are no more than 10% of the world's
water.
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