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To: Kenny Bunk

Good list!

I would just like to highlight the slow movement of continents across the planets surface (implied in your third item).

The world has been in an ice age for 2.6 million years - the biggest driver behind this change was the Antarctican landmass moving to the pole.

That’s a huge area of land that is not only not receiving very much insolation ( = direct solar radiance, for the thread) but that also turned white (!). This has radically changed the earth’s heat budget.

It’s importance when talking about AGW is because it emphasizes the importance of insolation on land (rather than water). The time of the dinosaurs was on average 5 degrees C warmer than today - our earth got cold largely because of this single enormous change.


17 posted on 03/09/2014 11:23:23 AM PDT by agere_contra (I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
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To: agere_contra
Yeah.

How educators and "scientists" fail to mention the many already observed and verified phenomena that affect our planet's climate cycles never fails to amaze, shock, and disgust me.

Are Americans now that frickin' dumb?

18 posted on 03/09/2014 11:35:55 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk ( The Republican Party is in Hospice Care. Hold all contributions.)
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