Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

The BBC today is reporting on the dimming of the sun. It is not that the sun’s output is any less than in recent history, but because particulate matter from man made pollution reflects the sun’s radiation back out into space two ways:

1. the particles gather in clouds which then form large water droplets around those particles to a much greater degree than unpolluted clouds do and that presents a reflective surface
2. Soot, ash and other particulate matter in the atmosphere itself forms a reflective barrier.

As a direct result of this the earth has seen a tremendous drop in sunlight, as much as 22% in some places over the past 4 decades. As a result climates have been cooler and rain patterns have been disrupted.

If that’s all there was to it though we could say well great let’s get a handle on particulate emissions and then we can worry about CO2 etc for globaol warming. But that’s just the problem. If we get rid of the particulate matter , which has been mitigating the effects of global warming, we will see rampant global warming take place very rapidly due to the already substantial amounts og greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere plus the projected increases over the next few decades.

“We’re going to be in a situation unless we act where the cooling pollutant is dropping off while the warming pollutant is going up.

“That means we’ll get reducing cooling and increased heating at the same time and that’s a problem for us,” says Dr Cox.

Even the most pessimistic forecasts of global warming may now have to be drastically revised upwards.

That means a temperature rise of 10 degrees Celsius by 2100 could be on the cards, giving the UK a climate like that of North Africa, and rendering many parts of the world uninhabitable.

That is unless we act urgently to curb our emissions of greenhouse gases.

This could be as early as 2100, 95 years from now.

Reading about this got me thinking about something else I saw recently on TV. It was a special on Mars and specifically on some intriguing photographs (no not the face) that NASA released back in 2001 that seem to indicate the possibility of a former civilization there. The photos are of what appears to be an ancient seabed where sand has eroded away in one place exposing what appears to be giant ribbed glass tubes about 20 to 50 metres in diameter and several kilometers long. No one yet has been able to supply a believable natural explanation for these tubes. They have the refractive characteristic of glass and it is all quite intriguing. Here’s a Google query that brings up a lot of information on them.

What I started to think about was if those tubes are prima facie evidence of a previous civilization on Mars (think transportation tubes) then what happened to that civilization? Mars has a very thin atmosphere, the result of a former thicker atmosphere slowly bleeding off into space. Atmospheres do bleed off into space, the Earth’s can be detected many thousands of miles out but by then it is one molecule in a huge volume of space. This bleedingis a constant process but the atmosphere is renewed by life processes and natural volcanic venting of gasses.

Did they make the same mistakes we are making and induce massive global warming which in the end had the effect of killing the planet? If warming gets out of control the plant life dies and when it dies the atmosphere loses it’s primary source of regeneration and slowly over thousands of millenia much will bleed off into space. Is that what happened? If so we should take heed because it appears from that we are not so far away from one of those tipping points past which we, and by we I mean all life on the planet, can not recover.

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