Global Warming – The Untold Part of The Story…

The Helium content in the sun has a major fluctuation period at 100,000 years as is visible from the last 650,000 years of ice core records taken from Antarctica.  This heating / cooling cycle works like a candle after the heart burrows itself into wax creating a cavity.  When this cavity becomes deeper the flame starts flickering at a steady frequency.  The reason is a periodic lack of oxygen that prevents the wax from burning properly.  A large flame forms when oxygen is readily available and the heated air expands the same time.  The oxygen is quickly consumed und the flame starts dying while the hot air raises up.  The flame is now almost gone but oxygen can again reach the heart of the candle and the cycle begins again. 

As said above our Sun is a Hydrogen fusion reactor that is held together by her own gravity converting Hydrogen to Helium at a steady pace.  However, the Helium is also fuel for yet another very hot fusion reaction but the concentration of the Helium must first reach a certain level, density and temperature before it can ignite.  That happens at least once in each 100,000 years.  This happened last time some 15,000 years ago and Helium is still fusing and the earth is heating up.  It appears that this Heliun fusion reaction might last 30-40,000 years and dies away.

In the next phase the the ice cap above Greenland becomes unstable and “falls” more or less orderly way into North Atlantic and with that the level of all oceans raise 6-8 meters.  With that the earth’s ability to absorb heat from the Sun gets diminished as more of the radiation from the Sun gets reflected away from the larger water surface.  Another perhaps even more important factor comes to play simultaneously as the now the cooler oceans can absorb more gases from the atmosphere, including all greenhouse gases. The earth starts cooling down.  Unfortunately the Helium reaction in the Sun may not be over yet and soon enough like 5 to 10,000 years later the temperature of the earth starts going up again.  The ice cap on Greenland has not thickened that much as of yet and depending on how long the heating continues a small part of Antarctica, about equal in size with Greenland is becoming also unstable.  If that ice cap section follows the path of Greenland we get yet an added 6 meters into Ocean level.  However, with this we have now enough fresh cold water in oceans to cool them down even more and that starts clearing the atmosphere from the remaining greenhouse gases.  With this going on the earth is in “free fall” to another deep freeze with ocean level dropping some 120 meters below the present.  It would go even further but now the 100,000 cycle is complete and the Sun has enough Helium that ignites again.

As recently as only 20,000 years ago the earth was at the bottom of the last “deep freeze” and at that time the water line was low enough to provide a “thousand mile wide highway” for everything to move freely between Alaska and Siberia. 

We know that we can do plenty to reduce the extremes already with our current knowledge and perhaps later we can even control this phenomena equally like we have built dams on rivers to tame the floods and to provide water over the dry season.  The process is in principle similar, it only requires taming the heat.  This will involve water, ice, plants and atmosphere, all in all it is a little more complex than a river dam but it can be done if we have the political will to do it.  But do we really have a choice – the alternative is a global war over resources and survival of the fittest! (theory by M&M, what we can do and should do is shown at http://www.galacticwind.com/indwarm.html )