Episode 12.notebook June 04, 2014 Episode 12: World Set Free Venus: It's hot. But it hasn't always been. For the first million or so years, Venus was probably a lot like Earth. However, something happened and CO went nuts. Venus lost is oceans of water to space and all the COQ) released by volcanos could not be absorbed and stayed in the atmosphere. It's atmosphere is almost entirely CO2 with Sulfuric Acid Clouds. It is 90 times as dense as our atmosphere. It is hot enough to melt Lead (Plumbum). Charles David Keeling: one of the first scientist to notice a rise in Carbon levels in our atmosphere and oceans. Most disturbing was that it was increasing faster and faster since the Industrial Revolution. Every year we put 30 million tons of CO: into the atmosphere. Can Volcanos be the cause? 1) Volcanoes only put out 2% of what we put out. 2) Volcanic Carbon is usually heavier than our Carbon. Carbon14 is emitted with volcanos, where fossil fuels are almost entirely Carbon12. Can the Sun be the cause? 1) Nope, The Sun hasn't changed significantly during the warming. 2) We are warming at night, and in the Winter, more than we should be.Episode 12.notebook June 04, 2014 Climate & Weather: Climate change - change in the overall average of temperatures and weather. Weather is fickle and can be changed by even small disturbances. Polar Ice Caps: 1) When the ice caps melt, they release water, which will raise the sea level, which will, make VW beach front property. This would really suck for N'awlens. 2) Water absorbes heat far better than ice. So, more water means more heat absorbed, means less ice, means more water.. means rinse, wash, repeat. Positive Feedback Loop: when the results of a process make the process happen faster. Permafrost happens in a similar fashion; this time it releases trapped, frozen organic material to thaw and rot, releasing CO2. [Augustin Mouchot: Invented a Solar powered machine that could provide mechanical energy to whatever you needed Basically he used a mirror to simulate the magnifying glass Jand ant experiment. He made a steam engine powered by the jsun. This was 1878 BUT coal got really cheap and everyone fargot Frank Shuman: Used Salar power ta work an irrigation system in Egypt, and proposed using a small patch of desert in Africa Ithat could power all of industry in the early 20th century. BUT VW happened and they needed the metal for weapons. Enter Wl and the Cold War and we really really wanted to blow up Russia. Or at least, show how much more awesome 'Murica is, The most impressive way to show off our rocket power, was go to the moon IThe awesome side effect of the Apollo missions was not a war lof superiority or chauvinistic shawing-off. It was what some people call "The Overview Effect." The astronauts who got to see the world from space, ar the moan, were struck with the beauty of our Earth as one single point in the vastness of spaceEpisode 12.notebook June 04, 2014