Climate Funny: "We're all doomed" – in a Billion Years

Like politics, science seems to be losing it’s males much faster than the earth is losing it’s hydrogen. Both fields are taking on a decidedly post normal character. Can we chalk this up to an increase in nurture? An increasing X/Y chromosome ratio? It definitely is fueling the neomarxbrothers politics which got it’s foothold in Europe, but is spreading rapidly in the west. Don’t look for it to happen in the East, but that is a separate story.
Such a factor may explain the rise in nanny governance and at the same time, the growing anxiety and hysteria over climate change and the precautionary principle for which the solution is strengthening nanniness to take care of we helpless folk. I’ve definitely seen a steady increase in women going into climate science.
A few short years ago, it was pretty much all males and the stuff was all very boring, but it gradually it got noticed that a rising level of alarm loosened up more cash and by the turn of the millennium, women began to detect a opportunities for nurturing that they couldn’t resist. Men climate scientists still do all the fudging and fiddling with the temperature, sea level and ice data to keep the feed hoppers full of cash and in a way, I expect this to continue because although women might smother you with rules regulations, make you take your vitamins, wear a helmet and all that precautionary stuff, they still may be a bit fastidious about openly doctoring data and knowingly lying and cheating in their studies like men do. After all, the vast majority of folks in jail only have one X-chromosome, too.
We always had throngs of women making up the protest wing of climate science, but with men noticeably flagging, they’ve been taking the plunge. You don’t have to know a lot. There is one linear formula cast in stone and they have their own statistical methods that can make a hockey stick out of whatever data numbers you have. Anyway this is enough to put up for peer review for now.
I should put up sarc tags and trigger thingys to prevent being hauled into court, if for no other reason, for belonging to the only group not included in “diversity”

she said that 400 pounds of hydrogen and almost 6.6 pounds of helium escape from Earth into space with every single minute that passes

Happily, we have a few billion years left until this grim scenario plays out

At this rate, if all Hydrogen comes from water, it takes 1.5 trillion years to deplete the ocean. That’s a thousand times longer than the timeframe Earth is doomed anyway due to ever increasing solar radiation.
I am quite surprised Anjali Tripathi, an astrophysicist at Harvard University can’t master the math to such a degree, that she had to come up with this particular non issue.
Had we advanced so far along the way to idiocy, that even Ivy League universities fail to keep up some semblance of scientific integrity?

Sigh. No CO2 leaving the planet?

A billion years… or tomorrow. It’s a chaotic, chaotic, chaotic, chaotic world.

Hello! Analytical chemist here!
I spent years with my colleagues (D.E. Emerson, P.W. Holland) analyzing the helium content of the atmosphere. It is remarkably stable at 5.2210 +/- 0.0004 parts per million, and uniform around the world, subject to no measurable seasonal variation. The source of helium is radioactive decay of minerals bearing uranium (mostly U-238) and thorium (almost exclusively Th-232) These minerals are chiefly granite and rhyolite, major components of the earth’s crust. The alpha particles produced by radioactive decay immediately capture electrons from the first atoms they encounter and become helium atoms. These atoms are ‘trapped’ in the rock, and gradually leak out to the earth’s surface through microscopic pores in the rock, entering the atmosphere. The number above represents a dynamic balance between production and escape from the atmosphere into space. Since the isotopes that produce helium have half-lives in the BILLIONS of years, changes in the overall rate of helium production are very slow. The rate of helium loss from the atmosphere is controlled by earth’s temperature, gravity and the concentration of helium in the atmosphere. None of these factors are changing measurably.
As far as hydrogen goes, the ‘hydrogen from water breaking down’ is almost entirely due to man-made hydrogen production in industrial processes, as water is much stabler than a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. Free hydrogen occurs in the atmosphere at about one part-per-million, making it less than one-fifth as abundant as helium in the atmosphere.
The main source of hydrogen in the atmosphere is the capture of the solar wind in the earth’s magnetosphere. It is this captured hydrogen that is almost the sole source of the hydrogen ‘losses’ to space. Most of the hydrogen in the atmosphere is found at VERY high altitudes.
I would expect an astrophysicist to understand that this is a very minor atmospheric effect, and an *equilibrium*.
FWIW, the entire earth’s atmosphere weighs about 6 QUADRILLION (6,000,000,000,000,000) tons, so losing 406.6 pounds a minute will take a LONG time to make even a measurable difference.