Friday, June 08, 2007  Myths of global warming dispelled  Eric
Berger over at Sciguy Blog has been beating the AGW drum for a
while now. And while I like and respect Eric, I think he is
wrong. I'll tell you why.  First off, I'm going to concede that
the Earth would appear to be warming at a rate of about half a
degree centigrade per decade.  Now before all you Al Gore fans
start falling all over yourselves writhing in ecstasy that a
conservative agreed with you, you might want to hear me out.
CO2 increases have historically lagged behind temperature
increases. The reason has always been that most CO2 is
sequestered in the oceans. Solubility of CO2 in water is
inversely proportional to the temperature. The higher the temp,
the lower the solubility. That is why a can of Coke left in the
sun will expand and burst. The CO2 is boiling out of solution
and taking up more space in the can. This is not news, this has
been known for a century or more.  Current climatologists insist
that the old paradigm of CO2 lagging