Climate Change

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Mr K

I don't think this climate issue is going away. Too little too, too late whatever we do now. If only we could have done 'thinking', and stopped ignoring the evidence.

No, it won’t go away through our silly efforts to reduce carbon emissions. We need to re-establish the world’s forests, but I can’t see that happening anytime soon. The recent devastation of the Amazon rainforest is going to be recognised as a devastating disaster for the planet in years to come.

By the way, it has been hotter than this before, as climate records show.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

By the way, it has been hotter than this before, as climate records show.

It's not one days weather OB, it's the trend of the last few decades. There's never been climate change at anything like this rate I.e a man made that scientists, as long as 90 years ago warned about. The worrying thing is its happening faster the worst predictions.

Never mind, I'm sure President Trump is on the case.

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Mr K

I don't think this climate issue is going away. Too little too, too late whatever we do now. If only we could have done 'thinking', and stopped ignoring the evidence.

Hot few days in summer alert, don’t worry temperature drops on Monday.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Pierre

Hot few days in summer alert, don’t worry temperature drops on Monday.

Monday's weather is irrelevant
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[Itshim]

Still clearly remember be warned that the next ice age is on its way

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Mr K

It's not one days weather OB, it's the trend of the last few decades. There's never been climate change at anything like this rate I.e a man made that scientists, as long as 90 years ago warned about. The worrying thing is its happening faster the worst predictions.

Never mind, I'm sure President Trump is on the case.

If you go rather further back, you will see that suddenly climate changes have happened before. The most recent was the little ice age that occurred between 1300 and 1870.There have been much warmer periods, too, but your graph only goes back a few hundred years.

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Mr K

It's not one days weather OB, it's the trend of the last few decades. There's never been climate change at anything like this rate I.e a man made that scientists, as long as 90 years ago warned about. The worrying thing is its happening faster the worst predictions.

Never mind, I'm sure President Trump is on the case.

Doesn't it naturally happen every few thousand years? Perhaps accelerated by 200 years through industrialisation (though I doubt that).

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Doesn't it naturally happen every few thousand years? Perhaps accelerated by 200 years through industrialisation (though I doubt that).

Nothing natural about the current rate of warming. Exponential curve, look it up.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Itshim

Still clearly remember be warned that the next ice age is on its way

and we lived through that, i seem to recall it happened on a Wednesday in December

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Doesn't it naturally happen every few thousand years? Perhaps accelerated by 200 years through industrialisation (though I doubt that).

It has accelerated over the last 200 years. Warming previously took geological ages to increase, not decades. It gives life a chance to adapt because the environment didn't radically change within lifetimes.

The exception has been the extinction events, when there was sudden climate change, such as the event that wiped out the dinosaurs. But none of the precursors to those events have occurred for us. There was been no geological event that has sparked this current rate of warming.

We have been slowly warming since the last ice age as well. Just as had happened previously. But we're talking a very long time to slowly warm up. It's increased massively in just decades.

I have posted graphs before on this, but maybe this XKCD comic showing the warming since the last ice age, and the development of humans, is better. Look how slowly it's warmed compared up until the last hundred years: https://xkcd.com/1732/

[TheDaddy]

Shell and exxon knew the damage they were doing in the mid 80's and admitted it privately, why do people seem to think they know better than them? Nearly 200 years ago scientists worked out what the greenhouse effect on the planet would be and their predictions are coming to pass as are shell and exxons from 45 years ago but here we are, people still refusing to being the evidence of their own eyes, it's like being in a cult, a death cult.