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Didn’t Greenland just gain 680 meters of ice, enough to cover NYC in one day?
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: anonentity
Yes. Global warming produces changes in climate.
Imagine that.
Cycles of climate change involving both warming and cooling.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: MykeNukem
Cycles of climate change involving both warming and cooling.
The physics of CO2 being the cause fills the bill quite thoroughly. Do you have something better?
If Mount St. Helen's blasted off tomorrow again, would we see a rise in CO2?
I would have to change my location, probably. But most of the volcanoes are dead, dead, dead. Only Hawaii has activity. Haleakala, on Maui, is considered dormant. But the further west you go, the deader the volcanoes.
What about if all the Volcanoes on the Hawaiian Island's went off?
And very long ago there were much higher concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere. A lot of it got turned into coal and stuff. Also, a younger Sun is a cooler Sun.
We can conjecture all we want, but, we KNOW for sure that the earth was warmer and probably more virulent in the past.
One doesn't generally ask for credit when one screws up badly. Knowingly, or otherwise.
I'm just not giving us credit yet.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: MykeNukem
Some volcanoes (not Hawaiian volcanoes so much), can produce prodigious amounts of CO2. For a short period of time. But we are doing it constantly. On an annual basis our emissions far exceed those of volcanic origin. Perhaps a very sensitive instrument could detect a change from a single eruption, perhaps not.
I would have to change my location, probably.
And very long ago there were much higher concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere. A lot of it got turned into coal and stuff. Also, a younger Sun is a cooler Sun.
One doesn't generally ask for credit when one screws up badly. Knowingly, or otherwise.
Got a source for that?
100 million years? Or the past million? CO2 levels now are higher than they been for at least that long. They were fairly constant compared to the past 100 years or so.
How far back?
No idea what, but anything but us?
I'm just not attributing it to us.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: MykeNukem
They were fairly constant compared to the past 100 years or so.
No idea what, but anything but us?
I'm not much into astrology.
Weird things seem to happen when the Giant planets are all on one side of the Sun.
Yes. There is evidence of large scale and long termed volcanic activity in the distant path. That's probably where a lot that CO2 which was once in the atmosphere and is now underground came from. I hope that doesn't happen again any time soon. Good thing it isn't happening now.
Greenland core and Antarctica core samples seem to suggest that cooling has been rapid, and at those times the relevant ice core samples show a lot more volcanic dust.
You're pretty far off. You should be talking centimeters, actually. At the most.
the continents drift every year about 15miles.
Have you heard about the latest eruption of the Siberian Traps? Oh, no, sorry, that's wildfires.
So, in one breath we're comparing the climate to 100's of millions of years, and in the next, we're getting alarmed over 100 years of activity? 100 million years of extremely volatile and CO2 spewing activity, right?
Some unknown cycle which causes the planet to emit C14 deficient carbon in vast quantities from an unknown source.
I said natural cyclic climate activity.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: MykeNukem
Some unknown cycle which causes the planet to emit C14 deficient carbon in vast quantities from an unknown source.
On the other hand...