I’ve ALWAYS been a FIRM BELIEVER in Global Warming, Global Cooling and Climate Change. You’ll never convince me of anything different!
HOWEVER, I can see that “Anthropogenic Global Warming” is political advocacy and not real science!
Exactly. 70,000 years ago, the spot where I’m sitting was under a thick ice sheet. It’s not there any more (although with this winter, you wonder about its eventual return). Climate scientists, even the legitimate ones, cannot explain why that ice sheet was there, nor can they explain why it melted away. What is clear is that mankind had absolutely nothing to do with it.
One thousand years ago, Vikings raised cattle in Greenland, grapes grew in Scotland, and Labrador of all places was referred to as “Vinland” as grapes were found growing there, too. There is some indication that Chinese seafarers transited the Arctic Ocean about this time. We call this the “Medieval Warm Period,” and the charlatan priests of the church of anthropogenic climate change want to find a way to “get rid of it.” The reason the MWP scares them is that it is too cold today for all of those things.
The climate is changing. And the fascinating thing about the climate is that there are cycles within cycles within even longer cycles. My guess is that we are gradually, longer term, trending warmer, but may be entering an intermediate colder cycle. But I don’t know.
And really, neither do the climatologists. Even the legitimate ones.