Climate Change

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Our Eroding Atmosphere, can it be sustained?

Hydrothermal Vents  are examples of  primordial water still gushing up from beneath the crust.  Water has been trapped there since the formation of the Planet.  These are present day “fountains of the deep” at the thinnest parts of the Earth’s crust.  I'm inclined to think the depth of the Atmosphere has been very much a variable in geological time with atmospheric loss to Space a the top and gas replenishment from beneath the crust below as demonstrated in Hydrothermal Vents.  The lag between atmospheric loss and atmospheric replacement is probably sufficient to explain variations in Global Climate like the Ice Ages.  The problem for Planet Earth, of course is that the Sun's power to burnish off our atmosphere is is massive compared to the earth's subcutaneous gases.  Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun once had an atmosphere, oceans and rivers, but is now dead to complete atmospheric loss.  How much time to we have?  In view of our destabilization of the Lapse Rate profile concurrent with Ozone depletion, it may not be much

Temperature and mass density against altitude from the NRLMSISE-00 standard atmosphere model

The point of all this, Dad, is to go over again that your Atheist, Anti-Christian position doesn’t make a lot of sense, and that the Biblical record is sometimes shockingly reliable on very strange topics in inexplicable ways.  If the Bible is found to be reliable on these peculiar natural matters, maybe it’s also credible on other matters as well - including the super-natural.  If you had taken the time, I think you would have found this to be true.  ...  Yours, 

Hydrothermal vents  Primordial Water and gases pour from beneath the earth's crust, along the crusts "stretch marks".  Can this source meet or exceed the loss of gasses into Space to "self-heal" our Atmosphere?  It seems not.   Google: Hydorthermal Vents

More on Planet Earth

Lapse Rate & Atmospheric Stratification

• Google: Adiabatic Lapse Rate 

• Structure of the Earth's Atmosphere

• Earth's Atmosphere

We don't know why these Charts show an ever rising ambient temperature with altitude in the Thermosphere.  What they're trying to show, we guess,  is the Temperature of an object struck with the radiant heat of the sun, mixing "apples & oranges" on the same graph.  Without the kinetic energy of matter / gas, how can there be a ambient Temperature in Space that isn't close to Absolute Zero?   We think Ambient Temperature should be ever decreasing as a function in parallel with the ever decreasing curve of the Atmospheric Pressure with Altitude shown here.  Drawn on top of the Ambient Temperature curve could be perhaps another curve in the Thermosphere approximating the Surface Temperature of an object struck by the unmitigated radiant heat from the sun..   

The daily fluctuation of atmospheric temperatures  in a "static" atmosphere from absolute zero to the scalding provided by the radiant heat would act like a solar shaver on the upper Atmosphere.  This is mollified, of course, because the Atmosphere is not static, and convective forces will work to flatten the temperature gradients as they are raised by the sun's solar radiation.. 

The Fourth State of Matter

Lecture 29 The Earth's Atmosphere

Lecture 4: Vertical Properties of the Atmosphere

Adiabatic Lapse -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Law of Atmospheres -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

adiabatic lapse rate Information From Answers.com

Moist Ascent

Gigantism of Fossil Record, cw a Deeper, "Hyperbaric" Atmosphere 

Mammals have a gene which tells them when to stop growing.     Reptiles do not have this gene, and continue to grow all their lives.

Primordial Atmosphere

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur

komodo dragon, fertilization, clone - Google Search

The atmosphere's composition during the dinosaur era was vastly different as well. Carbon dioxide levels were up to 12 times higher than today's levels, and oxygen formed 32 to 35% of the atmosphere, as compared to 21% today. However, by the late Cretaceous, the environment was changing dramatically. Volcanic activity was decreasing, which led to a cooling trend as levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide dropped. Oxygen levels in the atmosphere also started to fluctuate and would ultimately fall considerably. Some scientists hypothesize that climate change, combined with lower oxygen levels, might have led directly to the demise of many species. If the dinosaurs had respiratory systems similar to those commonly found in modern birds, it may have been particularly difficult for them to cope with reduced respiratory efficiency, given the enormous oxygen demands of their very large bodies. <Here>

The law of atmospheres,

also known as the barometric law, states that the pressure P(z) as a function of height z varies as

where m is the molecular mass, g is the gravitational acceleration, k is Boltzmann's constant, and T is the temperature.