Plant Growth and Ice Cores

HarveyH55 wrote:They are able to measure global plant growth, in response to global warming, climate change, apocalypse, or what ever the politically correct term is these days. Even better, they can measure this stuff in ice cores sample, and trace plant growth back 54,000 years.

HarveyH55 wrote: Doesn't say if carbonyl sulfide is only made by plants, stability, or if anything uses it for anything. I'd bet it's a greenhouse gas though, maybe even more powerful than man-made CO2, from which goes into creating it.

From Wikipedia: Measurements on the Antarctica ice cores and from air trapped in snow above glaciers (firn air) have provided a detailed picture of Carbonyl Sulfide (OCS) concentrations from 1640 to the present day and allow an understanding of the relative importance of anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic sources of this gas to the atmosphere.[6] Some carbonyl sulfide that is transported into the stratospheric sulfate layer is oxidized to sulfuric acid.[7] Sulfuric acid forms particulate which affects energy balance due to light scattering.[8] The long atmospheric lifetime of COS makes it the major source of stratospheric sulfate, though sulfur dioxide from volcanic activity can be significant too.[8] Carbonyl sulfide is also removed from the atmosphere by terrestrial vegetation by enzymes associated with the uptake of carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, and by hydrolysis in ocean waters.[9][10] Loss processes, such as these, limit the persistence (or lifetime) of a molecule of COS in the atmosphere to a few years.

keepit wrote:
Didn't someone have a possible plan to put sulfates into the upper atmosphere to reduce the incoming light and thereby reduce global warming?

keepit wrote:
I didn't say anything like that. It was a straightforward question.

IBdaMann wrote:

HarveyH55 wrote:They are able to measure global plant growth, in response to global warming, climate change, apocalypse, or what ever the politically correct term is these days. Even better, they can measure this stuff in ice cores sample, and trace plant growth back 54,000 years.

That's because there weren't any plants prior to 54,000 years ago. It's scientific. It's the power of proxy measurements and of "The Data"!

HarveyH55 wrote: Doesn't say if carbonyl sulfide is only made by plants, stability, or if anything uses it for anything. I'd bet it's a greenhouse gas though, maybe even more powerful than man-made CO2, from which goes into creating it.

Of course it's a powerful Greenhouse Gas! Carbonyl sulfide probably started the whole Global Warming thing 54,000 years ago. I took the following from Wikipedia so you know it's true:

From Wikipedia: Measurements on the Antarctica ice cores and from air trapped in snow above glaciers (firn air) have provided a detailed picture of Carbonyl Sulfide (OCS) concentrations from 1640 to the present day and allow an understanding of the relative importance of anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic sources of this gas to the atmosphere.[6] Some carbonyl sulfide that is transported into the stratospheric sulfate layer is oxidized to sulfuric acid.[7] Sulfuric acid forms particulate which affects energy balance due to light scattering.[8] The long atmospheric lifetime of COS makes it the major source of stratospheric sulfate, though sulfur dioxide from volcanic activity can be significant too.[8] Carbonyl sulfide is also removed from the atmosphere by terrestrial vegetation by enzymes associated with the uptake of carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, and by hydrolysis in ocean waters.[9][10] Loss processes, such as these, limit the persistence (or lifetime) of a molecule of COS in the atmosphere to a few years.

I hope you caught that "affects energy balance" assertion which is warmizombie-speak for "it causes Global Warming! Panic! Fear!"

Essentially, plants are attacking us by hurling sulfuric acid into the atmosphere. It's us or them. I'm sorry Greenpeace but you are on the wrong side of this issue.


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