Posted on 02/02/2022 3:04:00 AM PST by Kaslin
Is the climate changing? Yes. Is mankind contributing to the change in climate? Yes. Should major national policy respond to this change? No!
Climate changes continuously, both warming and cooling. There is nothing new in this and probably nothing to get excited about. Man inevitably modifies the climate. The only questions are by how much and in which way. Historically, man has modified the landscape sufficiently as to make a noticeable impact on the climate. The essential question we must address is, how much are we, today, impacting the climate, and is that impact harmful?
The answer is we don't know! My suspicion is that we have had only a modest, and probably benign, influence.
Given that we don't know, it is seriously bad policy to imperil our future in an attempt to control the climate. It also smacks of hubris to believe we have that much control over Mother Nature.
Before we look at the current situation, let us consider how man influenced climate in the past. In prehistoric times, the Mediterranean area was well forested. During the Neolithic period, wild goats were domesticated. The proliferation of domesticated goats caused major damage to the vegetation around the Mediterranean basin and beyond. Much of the land became deforested.
A second example is northern Europe. Once these lands were heavily forested. With the invention of the horse collar and the wheeled plow during the Middle Ages, it became possible to efficiently turn the heavy soil in northern Europe. As a result, the woodlands there were rapidly cleared for farming. Europe today looks very different from the Europe of two thousand years ago.
These modifications of the landscape changed the rates of water exchange with the atmosphere and the local reflective albedo.
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Yet another problem is the assumption that the sun is constant. This isn't unreasonable because the modelers don't know what to do with the sun. The reality is that the sun blasts the Earth in a variable solar wind of great power. This blows around our magnetic field, which, in turn, modulates our atmosphere. Moreover, the influx of cloud nucleating cosmic rays is also affected by the sun's variability. How can the climate models successfully predict the future when these powerful effects are not understood and are therefore ignored?
Finally, the influence of carbon dioxide on the climate is likely way over-estimated. Carbon dioxide is a very minor contributor to the greenhouse effect; water vapor overwhelmingly dominates. The lower atmosphere is already opaque with carbon dioxide. Adding still more means little
climate change AKA funding the new world order
One of (Norman) Augustine’s Laws: Any computer model that cannot be explained on the back of an envelope is worse than useless, it’s dangerous.
"Man inevitably modifies the climate..."
Yup - I got out of bed TWICE last night to turn up the thermostat.
I kinda wish man-made global warming was a real 'thing'.
Especially this particular winter. I've been freezing my tucas off.
It is estimated that the sun’s influence is 2500 times greater than anything that humans can do to affect the climate here on earth.
“Is the climate changing? Yes. Is mankind contributing to the change in climate? Yes.”
Total BS. No evidence exists whatsoever that man is contributing to it and the climate has ALWAYS been changing ever since this planet existed. Just what is the correct temperature anyway?
Could get 1 to 2 feet of climate change over the next couple days.
It’s Winter, and it’s supposed to snow in Winter.
My recollection is that CO2 is 4 one-hundredths of one percent (.04%) of our atmosphere. Yeah, that bad ass combustion engine really has an effect on our weather. Oil companies should be shut down immediately!! What a bunch of numbnuts these green weenies are.
1.3 million earths could fit inside the sun. Just thought a little scale might be helpful.
The world is more “forested” than it has ever been, thanks to HUMANS.
Anyone remember what the big cities like LA, NY and Chicago were like in the 60’s? Smog. Lots of smog. Well that is gone now, thanks to HUMANS. BUT it is currently WORSE than in those days in China!
Not necessarily. In Germany for example for every tree that is cut down in a forest five new saplings have to be planted, and if you have ever been in Germany and drove through a forest you would have noticed how clean they are.
Yes. I have driven through the Black forest.
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