Posted on 08/14/2021 3:34:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Civilization has no perfect immunity to goofball nonsense. But "herd" immunity is always within reach.
Fear is a great motivator, but it comes with a catch. It tends to inhibit good decision-making. Demagogues love it because it works so well. Right now, the Northern Hemisphere is having serious heat waves in many locations. Oy, vey! But wait...let me look at this here calendar. Oh, gee — it's the middle of August. Just a coincidence, I guess.
We used to learn in school that there were these things called ice ages. The last one, the Pleistocene, ended about 10,000 years ago, and it lasted only about 2.5 million years, give or take. At its peak, 30% of the Earth's surface was covered with ice. The oceans were way lower, too.
The jury is still out on why ice ages happen and why they end. Back in the 1970s, it was established that the sun goes through a 22-year intensity cycle...sort of. The hockey stick guy, Michael Mann, wrote an article for Scientific American explaining that his bungled warming prediction was the result of forgetting to include the solar cycle in the data used for his computer model. I commented online that that was a pretty amateurish mistake for someone who gets paid to be a scientist. They then yanked my commenting privilege, thus demonstrating the corruption of science by politics. I didn't renew my subscription after having one for 30 years, and they spent a bunch of money junk-mailing me to send them the next check.
There's also this pesky thing called tectonics, in which the Earth's land masses move around slowly, sometimes bumping into each other, causing large-scale buckling such as the Himalayas.
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Never let an orchestrated crisis go to waste.
“The jury is still out on why ice ages happen and why they end.”
This writer’s conclusions are totally correct. Earth ice cycles occur in roughly 100,000 year increments. The continents are covered in ice for roughly 80,000 years, then ice melts for 20,000 years. We are roughly 10,000 years through the current interglacial. Interglacials are characterized by an ever-warming atmosphere and subsequently by melting ice and rising oceans levels. These trends will continue until the next ice age occurs starting in 10,000 years.
No science is ever truly proven, however the cause of earth’s ice cycles are generally agreed to be the Milankovitch Cycle. Milankovitch Cycles are geometric perturbations in earth’s orbit which periodically point earth’s southern oceans at the sun when earth is closest to the sun. During this time the southern oceans trap more solar radiation than in other phases of the Milankovitch Cycle. Carbon has nothing to do with it.
We are currently in the Quaternary Age. A geologic time period characterized by cyclic continental glaciations. (”Cyclic” means repeats, explaining as Rush would say for those from Rio Linda !) As you have pointed out we have been enjoying a warming lull. I’ve read papers that are we’re at the end of that lull. Maybe you’re right, maybe they’re right, only new “physical evidence” & time will tell. I still say a warm coat is a good investment !
Interesting. Thanks.
Impeach the Media.
“we have been enjoying a warming lull. I’ve read papers that are we’re at the end of that lull.”
Most weather and climate trends have momentum. Trends have causes, but the trends continue long after the causes disappear. We are currently about seven weeks past the northern hemisphere’s summer solstice. However, it’s probably a little warmer in the north than it was at the solstice. These trends occur inside of our lifespan paradigm, so they seem natural and logical. On a 20,000 timescale they might be hard for some people to get comfortable with.
I see. You're probably talking about the 50 year cycle of solar cycles.
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/solar-cycle/historical-solar-cycles.html
The peak in temperature from the 1980 cycle occurred 18 years later. And yes, temperatures have been lowering since 1998.
Agree !
Anyway I didn’t write the papers, they have their arguments on why we are at the end of the lull. Best I can say is could be ?
Fundamentally not disagreeing with you !
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