Posted on 12/12/2016 2:50:13 PM PST by billorites
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Anyone who chooses to locate near water should be free to do so. However, no FEMA or tax money should be spent to help it. No tax money should be spent to bail it out or rescue it. That includes tourist traps and casinos, fishing cabins and Martha’s Vineyard mansions.
Short term flooding from 10-year level rainstorms is enough reason to keep generators out of basements.
Short term flooding from 10-year level rainstorms is enough reason to keep generators out of basements.
As are particularly nasty Nor'easters that arrive at high tide!
Real scientists don’t “adjust” the raw data, much less do it based on preconceived ideas. They also don’t build computer models and adjust the variables until the model shows what they wanted it to show. Even though the model never has aligned with past data and the changes to the variables make it align even less. “Consensus” was not a term I EVER heard was a basis for scientific inquiry prior to the AGW scam.
The AGW Accolytes have painted themselves into a corner. Over 10 years of global warming brainwashing in schools, TV shows, Movies, political hearings, corporate mandates and mass media productions. They cannot give it up. They cannot make the switch to global cooling. They will go down with their Global Warming ship.
That somewhat depends on what time period is covered. The Earth is presently in a long term Ice Age, and an overall downward temperature trend over many millions of years, interrupted by relatively brief interglacial periods such as the one we now enjoy. There is little evidence to support a change in the Sun causing the long term trend, but there is SOME evidence that it has been caused by the rise of the Himalayas, and more recently the Isthmus of Panama.
Meanwhile, there is considerable argument as to what causes the periodic interglacials, why the cycle period changed several cycles back, why the cycles deepened, and more importantly in the short run, what triggers the end of each interglacial. Whatever it is, Man was not a factor in any of the previous cycles, and while the Sun might be a factor, the evidence is sketchy at best. Orbital forcing likely is a contributor, but even that is poorly understood (such as why have the cycles gone from 41 k years to ~ 100 k years, and why in some cases effect seems to precede cause.) There is, in short, much more that we do not know than what we do know.
What IS certain is that if humans are not a very wealthy, powerful, capable society, when the next period of glaciation comes, we'll be "pruned back" brutally.
One other interesting bit of information:
The Sun’s output is believed to be increasing 7% every billion years. Yet, since the Eocene Optimum (centered around 50 million years ago) through the average of the last million years or so, average global temperatures have fallen approx. 15 deg. C (or 27 deg. F.) That’s a lot!
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