Posted on 01/25/2002 7:38:28 AM PST by dalereed
That's why the weight of the increased depth of ice in Antarctica is causing huge bergs to break loose?
That's why the North Pole, which used to be mostly open sea, has been mostly frozen since the 1940's?
It makes you wonder how those glaciers got there in the first place. Could it be that the Earth goes through periods of cooling and warming? Could it also be that these periods of cooling and warming have nothing to do with the insignificant human and how many suvs he drives or how many campfires are going?
We put to much importance on our existence on earth and the effects thereof.
Your #18 BTTT!
It is absurd for the 'scientists' quoted to question their results just because they appear to be at odds with an essentially unvalidated theory like that of global 'warming'.
But they do publish it. That's why its called science and not b******t.
Yep, and it has been happening for millions of years, if not billions. Ice Age comes, Ice Age ends, Ice Age comes, Ice Age ends. I am no scientist, but I will bet every earthly possession that I have that another Ice Age will happen.
They are anomolies all right--anomolies for global warming theory. All climate models that are the basis for global warming predictions imply that CO2 induced warming should be most acute at the poles, and especially Antarctica (in part because industry-related aerosol particulates that can mitigate warming are far less prevalent in the southern hemisphere). This finding is a major contradiction to the predictions of global warming theories. The global warming Jeremiahs can try to spin this any way they want, but it poses a fundamental problem for them. It is hard to overstate the importance of this result.
I report what I perceive. T-shirts in January in NY is noteworthy. What happens in Antarctica is of little interest to the new bananna-farming industry in New England.
I saw that data presented on the Discovery Channel (hope I remember that right) last night. The show was primarily about how the oceans act as a "global air conditioner", cooling the tropics and warming the high latitudes. There was a chart showing how there have been repeated, significant temperature swings over the last (at least) hundreds of thousands of years. Only the last few thousand have seemed to be "stable". The message we were supposed to take home was that we should hold our breath, tiptoe around and do as little as possible (except cut back on CO2) to disturb the balance. If we don't behave as dictated by the global warming crowd, we supposedly will be responsible for disrupting the ocean heating/cooling currents and we will have a disaster. My conclusion from the data would be that we humans have very little if anything to do with climate changes, and what we should be spending our "energy" on is developing coping strategies for the next ice age.
"The main significance of the new data lies in the high correlation between GTG concentrations and temperature variations over 420,000 years and through four glacial cycles. However, because of the difficulty in precisely dating the air and water (ice) samples, it is still unknown whether GTG concentration increases precede and cause temperature increases, or vice versa--or whether they increase synchronously. It's also unknown how much of the historical temperature changes have been due to GTGs, and how much has been due to orbital forcing, ie, increases in solar radiation, or perhaps long-term shifts in ocean circulation."
I remember just a few short years ago the envirowackos trotted out some study in support of their stance on global warming and the computer models show this and the computer models show that, and damnit, look, the computer models say so so it has to be true!
Well, it was quickly discovered, but rarely reported, the computer models the scientists use in their study LEFT OUT THE OCEANS!!! They didn't but 75% of the earths surface into their computer models!
BINGO! You have now disclosed the reason for "global warming".
Well, that and the ambition of power hungry socialists and communists who have the solution for all the world's problems if only they had central control of the planet. NOT.
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