[ExI] peak fossil by 2020

[John Clark]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:10 PM, spike <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

> The reason I do not worry about spontaneous clathrate conversion is that
> the thermal mass of the ocean is enormous.  Water has a lot of heat
> capacity for its mass.  The calculations on that notion are pretty
> straightforward: it would take centuries to warm the depths even 1 degree
> celcius under any scenario I can imagine.
>
True, and given that we'll all be dead soon after 2020 because of energy
starvation, at least according to some on this list, I don't loose a lot of
sleep worrying about runaway greenhouse effects.

> Have you any sample calcs to suggest otherwise?
>
No, I said it was a theory I didn't say it was a good theory.

  John K Clark
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