WickedsDesire
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That made me laugh a plucky band of Billionaires and oil companies. The biggest heat sink on the planet are the oceans (is the ocean there is really only the one). The biggest source of heat is an alleged spherical orangey thingy – I think my friend claimed to have seen it one time in my lands, after a mushroom frenzy, before we has him declared quite mad. Solar activity has only recently come to the fore. The Maunder Minimum (bit of the little ice age), dalton minimum, and a few others, coincide with a cooling phase, although the mechanism for this is not understood. But newer papers propose - attribute this to a rise in volcanism. So in essence no-one really knows for sure. Oceans Thermohaline circulation: oscillations, gyres, overturning, salinity are only now being studied, and fully realized – although the gulf stream has been known for quite some time and its alleged impact in north western Europe climate – particularly the relatively mild winters, given northerly latitude That web page stated and in my opinion a dangerous statement…..determine the temperature of the planet’s water and air, and that natural variations in solar activity, ocean heat distribution/cycling, clouds, volcanic activity…play little to no role in long-term climate change. Perhaps this CO2-drives-climate paradigm needs to be updated to reflect the growing body of scientific evidence that the Sun and natural ocean cycling are primarily what drive temperature variations — not CO2. The complexities and variables, or hows and whys, of the climate are vast and no-one truly understands them. The earth warms. Has it been warmer in the past of course it has been many times, same with colder. Have the CO2 levels been higher in the past absolutely Mother earth will always find its equilibrium. Although I am not sure how accurate that is now given mans intervention into the cycle at an unprecedented rate – a variable mother earth has never had to contended with in 5 billion years The climate has always been wonky, for many a reasons, but there is a distinct trend to it, or a distinct additional trend to it nowadays, and man is the common denominator. Only a deranged madman would say otherwise – didn’t trump? Wouldn't take much to invoke catastrophe if we arnet already too late, wouldn't take much to start another ice age (remove us from this interglacial) . The melt water from Greenland may have already started that who knows, volcanoes are unpredictable and Iceland will probably blow its top, sooner rather than later a small asteroid/comet strike and so on.
< Message edited by WickedsDesire -- 9/28/2016 8:35:26 AM >
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