On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:10 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">> 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.</span><br>
</p></div></div></blockquote><div>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. <br>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">> Have you any sample calcs to suggest otherwise?</span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>No, I said it was a theory I didn't say it was a good theory.<br>
<br> John K Clark<br> </div><div> <br></div></div>