CCLXXVI Global Warming and Climate Change} Or we could say 13 score and 16, that would just be silly! or 14 score less 4, even sillier! Milankovitch

    Last post I never talked about, Milutin Milankovitch, and how the Earth's changes of obits were thought to be very influential in the coming and going of individual ice-ages! These "Milankovitch Oscillations as they came to be called back in the 1930s, gave an explanation for the why, that I did not like at all, Had the planet suddenly changed its orbital path just starting 2.5 million years ago, no it was still following what it has done for billions of years! 

    Then in the 1970s, an in-depth study of these "Oscillations" was done and they showed that these "Oscillations" did not cause ice-ages but only "paced" them, I really liked that term "paced" it helped me come to understand that there had to be a cause for ice-ages but also a reason why they come and go, with such a pattern, that could lead to the real reason why! It still took me 30 more years to finally both eliminate ideas and understand how important the oceans were for being the last great repository of available carbon! There is still much that I have not figured out, so many scientists make the statement that dissolved carbon in the oceans make those waters too acidic for much of the life that lives there, yet I am positive that the Oceans of the world is where the available carbon had to be stored. Since the start of the last set of ice-ages 2.5 million years ago, the planet has been sequestrating around 7 gigatonnes of carbon every year 7x2,500,000= 17,500,000 gigatonnes of carbon! We know that it did not come from the atmosphere, a little of that huge amount would have come from the loss of plant life and soil carbon of newly created arid and semi-arid areas of the planet, so that only leaves the Oceans, of the planet, and yet the oceans were teeming with life! 

    And when farmers need to reduce the acidity of their farmlands they put finely crushed limestone to do that with. As they do in freshwater lakes that become too acidic, So we may need to do the same to get enough calcium with the carbon. We know how to pulverize limestone, and mankind is the only one that can do that.

    Getting back to how Milankovitch Oscillations, "paceing" the starting and stopping of an "ice age", when the Earth is receiving the most energy from the sun, then an ice age does not start until carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere approaches only 180 parts per million. However, when the planet is receiving the least amount of energy from the sun, then the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can be around 200 parts per million when another "ice age" starts. The same numbers can not be used for when an ice age starts to recede because of the "Albedo effect" of all of the snow and ice that is on the planet. This is very important because, if that was not the case, then the timeline between the "ice ages" would be much less than the normal time of around 10,000 years! Then as the ice slowly recedes, the newly exposed soils or those that had been simply permafrost, would release their stores of carbon slowly back into the atmosphere helping to maintain the higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere for a much longer period of time before "carbon sequestration" again would cause another "ice age" to begin. 

    10,000 years of an inter glacier period would need to have around 70,000 gigatonnes of carbon to sequestrate or have a much higher rate of carbon from decaying trees, soil carbon, or volcanic activity. All of which does not come up with the "AVAILABLE" carbon we now have on the planet. Those numbers only tally to less than 50,000 gigatonnes!

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