Why burning carbon is bad, Chaos Theory and Laws of Thermodynamics

Givens: The Earth is a closed system exposed to radiation. Second law of thermodynamics, about entropy: The total entropy of any isolated thermodynamic system tends to increase over time, approaching a maximum value or equilibrium. First law of thermodynamics, about the conservation of energy: The change in the internal energy of a closed thermodynamic system [...]

The Carbon cycle

Go back two hundred years The carbon cycle has been occurring for four billion years.  Plants take carbon from the air and store it in themselves. When the plants die the carbon is either composted or trapped underground to become coal. Animals take carbon from plants and become oil in death. As a result the [...]

Gas Hydrate solid methane

collected from the bottom of the ocean. vast amounts. Why can’t drill for it like we do for oil? Those were the questions I had about the large amount of natural gas trapped mostly on the bottom of the ocean by the pressure and cold temperatures. One obsticle with drilling is the extreme depths…not like offshore oil drilling which [...]

The thing about logging

Logging as practiced by Americans and Canadians in places like New England and the Pacific Northwest is done right.  The trees they currently harvest were planted by loggers fifty to a hundred years ago and they will plants new trees after they cut old ones down. I don’t think cutting down boreal forest is acceptable [...]

Melting Ice Caps