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    Extended summer stormlover74 future snow hole banter thread 23

    in New York City Metro

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    22 hours ago, Volcanic Winter said:

    We’ve released about 2400 Gigatons of CO2 since 1850 and raised CO2 PPM from 280 to over 400 in a 150 years. During the Permian Mass Extinction 3,900 to 12,000 Gigatons of CO2 were released by the Siberian Traps bringing CO2 PPM from about 400 to over 2,000. This occurred over about a 60,000 year period. 

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian–Triassic_extinction_event
     

    Yeah, and I live on a GIANT glacial moraine in NY called Long Island.

    Was it Mammoth farts that melted the Laurentide Ice Sheet?

    Hot dogs!!!

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    Extended summer stormlover74 future snow hole banter thread 23

    in New York City Metro

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    On 1/29/2024 at 3:08 PM, Volcanic Winter said:

    Human activity is mimicking the powerful natural atmospheric changes brought on by the largest flood basalt eruptions. Look up the Siberian Traps which ushered in the Permian Mass Extinction and came very close to sterilizing the planet. This occurred due to absolutely monstrous CO2 gas release sustained over many thousands of years, as these eruptions are beyond any human comprehension. They dwarf VEI 8 explosive eruptions like Yellowstone (last was 1,000-1,500 cubic kilometers of volume). Flood basalt eruptions are 100,000+ cubic kilometers, sustaining at an enormously high yearly rate of effusion. They’re major players of global climate change and are often responsible for some of the warmest excursions our planet has seen.  The earth has “tools” to recover from these excursions, but they too take many, many millennia in order to scrub CO2 and bring global temps back down. I can only say continuing mass deforestation is catastrophically short sighted on our part, and couldn’t be more antithetical to what we should be doing right now. I understand all the ways modern society depends on lumber, but we need to figure it out - fast. 

    The earth hasn’t seen a flood basalt event since the Columbia River Basalts about 16mya, and as you can probably tell they’re extremely rare from a human perspective. They’re believed to often be the birth of a new hotspot as an enormous mantle plume pushes toward the surface and forces out spectacular amounts of freshly melted magma as the plume pushes into the crust. And with all that melted rock comes all that exsolved gas, CO2 chief among them. And yes, the hotspot that caused the CRB in the PNW is very likely the hotspot powering Yellowstone presently, albeit in a reduced capacity.

    Human activity is mimicking a flood basalt event, except at an even more rapid rate. They take thousands of years generally to have the kind of impact we’ve seen in a hundred. Short of catastrophic instantaneous events like asteroid impacts, we have to be the fastest instance of major climate change in the geologic record. 

    The Siberian Traps eruption event was 2 million years of massive eruptions there.

    The analog is insane.  

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    April 2023

    in New York City Metro

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    Looks like a gigantic cut-off low on Intellicast US.

    The worst for a spring mood, but vital precipitation is welcome.

    April and May are always a tease on Long Island anyway with the cool SST and easterly winds.

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    Summer Banter

    in New York City Metro

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    1 hour ago, forkyfork said:

    so does everyone here believe that human co2 emissions are warming the climate? 

    I live on a giant glacial moraine called Long Island, NY.

    Mother nature took our ice, but twice. Twin forks to show.

    We cannot control the weather. Climate is going to climate.

    Sadly, it is political to the extreme now.

     

    GIGO Forever, Inshalgore, amen.

    :whistle: 

     

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    September 2020 wx discussion

    in New York City Metro

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    10 hours ago, dWave said:

    Centered in Freehold NJ. 3.1. Reports it was felt from south NJ to SI, Brooklyn & Queens. 

     

    I work practically across the street from ISP; I was sitting in my car on break at the time, and it felt like someone shook my car very lightly by hand. I even looked in my mirror, lol. I thought to myself, "Did I just feel an earthquake.....? Naaaaa".

    SOB, I come here and see this. Not lying. 

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