New nonfiction book digs below ocean's surface for source of global warming
PORTAGE, Mich. (MMD Newswire) September 20, 2010 -- The Climate Trap: A Perilous Tipping of Earth's Freeze Protection System by chemical engineer Melvin J. Visser intends to send a serious warning about global warming via an imaginary journey through time and space to trace carbon's flow and the Earth's climate. "Current models of how Earth grew from space dust are in need of updating," says Visser. "Where was the carbon, and when?"
Historically, Visser says, carbon transferred naturally from atmosphere to ocean and back again, to regulate global climate and provide carbon for coal, oil, natural gas and fauna. Whenever too much carbon transferred from the atmosphere, Earth glaciated until methane hydrate, Earth's freeze protection compound, decomposed to release methane. Visser says that methane hydrate is the compound that formed in the containment dome during the recent oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, and that today, scientists estimate the ocean floor contains 13 trillion tons of carbon sequestered as methane hydrate, which is more than Earth's oil, coal and gas combined. According to Visser, as oceanic temperatures rise, methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, is released from this storehouse to further aggravate global heating. The author says that this overheating will continue for millions of years.
"The Climate Trap works to incorporate space-age findings and the discovery of methane hydrate to rethink Earth's process of cooling down from a Venus-like ball to form oceans and transfer carbon between environmental compartments of land, ocean and atmosphere," says Visser. "When this thinking is done, the mystery of ice age cycling and our impending warming becomes crystal clear."
The Climate Trap: A Perilous Tipping of Earth's Freeze Protection System is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.
About the Author
Melvin J. Visser received his degree in chemical engineering from the Michigan Technological University. In 1989, he patented a soil vapor extraction technology, used worldwide to remove volatile chemicals from the soil. In 1995, his extensive research on pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in Lake Superior was published as Cold, Clear and Deadly: Unraveling a Toxic Legacy. Visser and his wife of 52 years, Gloria, have two children and three grandchildren.
MEDIA CONTACT
Melvin J. Visser
Email: vissermel@hotmail.com
Phone: (269) 327-6592
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