Posted on 02/29/2008 8:50:55 PM PST by CedarDave
In Part I many were possibly quite stunned to see just how regular, frequent and dramatic natural climate change is on Spaceship Earth. Four hundred foot sea level changes, abrupt climate change, at the end of 100,000 year long deep freezes (global warming events), the most regularly occurring thing we know of in all geology. Sixteen of these in the last 1.6 million years (The Pleistocene Epoch), and dozens more in the Pliocene which preceded it ...
In Part II, we confronted the fact (oops! I am loosing 88.9% of you here) that in order to do this with Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) you would need to increase populations of living creatures either steadily on those long slow slides into 100,000 year long ice ages then suddenly have them develop “gas” attacks right at the 100k year mark, or at the very bottom of the deep freeze have a population explosion AND a gas attack. This could also be accomplished with volcanoes on a Swiss movement, which could generate massive amounts of GHGs, but they also generate massive amounts of ash, which would make the freeze even deeper. Or you could pass through a space-based CO2 cloud which passes our way every 100k years now, instead of 41k years, like it did prior to the Pleistocene in the Pliocene.
Or it could be due to earth’s rickety orbit, which matches up eerily well with those climate change events.
I mean, I really did have a problem with the whole Vostok temperature records. There just didn’t seem to be any way to realistically have CO2 play a role unless, like us, it was a spectator. And so I looked to see just where the cracks in the climate change armor had been hidden. And I found them. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at icecap.us ...
Submitted for our evaluation by William F. McClenney, Professional Geologist #4430 (CA) who changed sides during his multi-year, painstaking research into all aspects of anthropogenic versus natural causes of climate changes. In his own words “The results of this research are startling. Not only can I safely state that the chances of AGW occurring due to greenhouse gases (GHG) is remote at best, and if it did occur might very well be the first time in the geologic record, but that GHG theorists are simply on the wrong side of the decimal point in this debate.” You may not agree with everything he says. I didn’t. But it is overall very insightful, interesting and provocative.
Part I: The Sky is Falling or on Revising the Nine Times Rule (Part I of V)
Part II: The Sky is Falling or on Revising the Nine Times Rule (Part II of V)
PING!
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
New!!: Dr. John Ray's
GREENIE WATCH
The Great Global Warming Swindle Video - back on the net!! (click here)
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
The guy finds a number he likes on the web, doesn't give the source and doesn't (or can't) derive it himself. It's not a simple topic, but his effort here is especially weak.
junk web search bump (I can't this junk science since there is no science in it)
Part IV: The Sky is Falling or on Revising the Nine Times Rule (Part IV of V)
Part V: The Sky is Falling or on Revising the Nine Times Rule (Part V of V)
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