Below is a post in a forum beneath a Scientific American article, Effective World Government Will Be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe:
The earth is 4.5 billion years old and has gone through five glaciation periods. Man wasn’t around for the first four. Between each glaciation period the earth warmed up, becoming hot by our standards.
We started coming out of the last glaciation period about 10,000 years ago. We are not out of it yet; we still have glaciers.
As we continue to come out of it, it will warm up, becoming hot, then the pendulum will swing the other way, bringing us a cooler climate, even another glaciation period.
No world government or any other legislative body can change that. It is amazing that the once great science magazine fails to consider science and instead wants to become a political rag instead of a great science magazine. Climate change is real, but faith-based climate change is not.
Is this finally proof we're NOT causing global warming? The whole of the Earth heated up in medieval times without human CO2 emissions, says new study Evidence was found in a rare mineral that records global temperatures Warming was global and NOT limited to Europe Throws doubt on orthodoxies around 'global warming' By TED THORNHILL PUBLISHED: 07:21 EST, 26 March 2012 | UPDATED: 07:55 EST, 26 March 2012
Current theories of the causes and impact of global warming have been thrown into question by a new study which shows that during medieval times the whole of the planet heated up. It then cooled down naturally and there was even a 'mini ice age'. A team of scientists led by geochemist Zunli Lu from Syracuse University in New York state, has found that contrary to the ‘consensus’, the ‘Medieval Warm Period’ approximately 500 to 1,000 years ago wasn’t just confined to Europe. In fact, it extended all the way down to Antarctica – which means that the Earth has already experience global warming without the aid of human CO2 emissions..................>>>>..................>>>>.................Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sci.....s.html#ixzz1qGebTCNq
Greenland wasn't named that because it was an ice sheet
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Greenland wasn't named that because it was an ice sheet
Actually, yes, it was. Believe it or not, Iceland and Greenland got their names in an ironic marketing ploy ages ago. They were named backwards, so that people would go and try to get to Greenland and stay away from Iceland, a ploy by the Nords who actually explored and found both of these land masses.
Re March 14 letter, “Climate change goes on, as does the foot dragging”: For Mr. B.K. Keramati’s information, Earth’s climate has been changing for billions of years. At one time, carbon dioxide levels were far greater than they are today. Fifty thousand years ago, an ice sheet one mile thick covered most of the globe. In the ’70s meteorologists and climatologists were predicting another Ice Age. By the early ’90s it changed to global warming. Two years ago a report [from] the University of Cambridge stating the Himalayan Mountain glaciers were melting proved to be a fraud. Both claims were based on computer modeling subject to manipulation. Without missing a beat, environmentalists switched to climate change. So which is it? Will we freeze to death, broil, or both? We cannot afford ideology to trump common sense. Ethanol has proven to be an obscene waste of money. Solar panels have a long payback period, by which time they may need to be replaced, and they only work when the sun shines. Windmills need wind. To assume that all of our energy needs can be met with alternatives like solar, wind, corn, soy, used cooking oil, switch grass or algae is laughable, or the cost is prohibitive. Since Mr. Keramati has elected to lecture us, I assume he lives in a “green house” and has pulled the plug on his utility company.
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EPA Greenhouse Gas Rules Upheld By Federal Court By DINA CAPPIELLO 06/26/12 12:14 PM ET
WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the first-ever regulations aimed at reducing the gases blamed for global warming.
The rules, which were challenged by industry groups and various states, will reduce emissions of six heat-trapping gases from large industrial facilities such as factories and power plants, as well as from automobile tailpipes.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington said that the Environmental Protection Agency was "unambiguously correct" in using existing federal law to address global warming.
The ruling is perhaps the most significant to come on the issue since 2007, when the Supreme Court found that greenhouse gases could be controlled as air pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
It also lands during a presidential election year where there are sharp differences between the two candidates when it comes to how best to deal with global warming...................................>>>>....................>>>>.....................http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/26/epa-greenhouse-gas-rules_n_1627445.html
Summer is here. Time for Al Gore to come out of hiding for the next few months. Has to shut down the air conditioners at his oversized house that he has too many lights and uses too much coal-fired energy for, so he has to get in a private jet and fly all around the US telling everybody how THEY have to cut down on their greenhouse gas causing pollution.
Climate Change, Extreme Weather Linked In Studies Examining Texas Drought And U.K. Heat Reuters | Posted: 07/10/2012 3:36 pm Updated: 07/11/2012 1:34 am
* 2011 was among 15 warmest years globally - U.S. agency
* Extreme weather events show influence of climate change
* Greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere reaches new high
By Deborah Zabarenko
WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - Climate change increased the odds for the kind of extreme weather that prevailed in 2011, a year that saw severe drought in Texas, unusual heat in England and was one of the 15 warmest years on record, scientists reported on Tuesday.
Overall, 2011 was a year of extreme events - from historic droughts in East Africa, northern Mexico and the southern United States to an above-average cyclone season in the North Atlantic and the end of Australia's wettest two-year period ever, scientists from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the United Kingdom's Met Office said.............................>>>>......................>>>>.................http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/10/climate-change-extreme-weather_n_1663014.html
Tree-rings prove climate was WARMER in Roman and Medieval times than it is now - and world has been cooling for 2,000 years By Rob Waugh PUBLISHED: 07:22 EST, 11 July 2012 | UPDATED: 07:22 EST, 11 July 2012 Rings in fossilised pine trees have proven that the world was much warmer than previously thought - with measurements dating back to 138BC
Rings in fossilised pine trees have proven that the world was much warmer than previously thought - with measurements dating back to 138BC
Rings in fossilised pine trees have proven that the world was much warmer than previously thought - and the earth has been slowly COOLING for 2,000 years.
Measurements stretching back to 138BC prove that the Earth is slowly cooling due to changes in the distance between the Earth and the sun.
The finding may force scientists to rethink current theories of the impact of global warming.
It is the first time that researchers have been able to accurately measure trends in global temperature over the last two millennia.
Over that time, the world has been getting cooler - and previous estimates, used as the basis for current climate science, are wrong.
Their findings demonstrate that this trend involves a cooling of -0.3°C per millennium due to gradual changes to the position of the sun and an increase in the distance between the Earth and the sun.
‘This figure we calculated may not seem particularly significant,’ says Esper, ‘however, it is also not negligible when compared to global warming, which up to now has been less than 1°C.
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