http://www.livescience.com/12197-global-melt-sea-ice-orbit.html
Environmental monitoring satellites track warming by watching polar ice. Credit: ESA
"Global warming is a real phenomenon in climatic history. The causes are obscure. Climate may behave chaotically or according to rules humans are too dense to discern. At any rate, it's stupid and arrogant to assume that our puny global industrial capacity has any measurable effect upon a system so vast. If things are warming up slightly of late it's because of forces larger than our machines and our intellect.
It is 'new' environmentalism that "informs" the masses that human activity is dooming the whole planet. It is environmentalism as religion with dogma handed down from high-priests like Al Gore. It is delusion. It is dangerous. We are perilously close to making new law to accomodate the religion of global warming. When we do, all hope is lost, because the climate will cool (as it would anyway) and the high priests will say "see! It's working!"
Science, real science, is a beautiful tool. Pseudo-science is no better than medieval religion. Yes, humanity has problems to face. Life is becoming intolerable for many people, but this is NOT because of climate change. It is because of uncontrolled reproduction. The planet and the ecosystem will do just fine in any case. It is human dignity that is in grave danger. The path home lies with population control, not carbon dioxide".-- pupplesan
Good information.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is!
ReplyDeleteThanks for viewing :-)
To think about it, its complicated. Y? Who's to blame.?
ReplyDeleteAs we monitor climate change trends,
ReplyDeletethere should be doable policies
formulated which can assure the
survival of earth species including mankind.
Question would be: how could we prevent
or slow down earth environs path to destruction?
What could we each afford to contribute
in some form of individual capacity to slacken
earth's destruction?
That said, first thing to remember is this planet
as with all things, is in a constant state of change.
It has been since the moment it was formed.
Second is that we cannot stop those changes.
Third some of those changes will seriously affect our enviorment.
As we monitor climate change trends,
ReplyDeletethere should be doable policies
formulated which can assure the
survival of earth species including mankind.
Question would be: how could we prevent
or slow down earth environs path to destruction?
What could we each afford to contribute
in some form of individual capacity to slacken
earth's destruction?
That said, first thing to remember is this planet
as with all things, is in a constant state of change.
It has been since the moment it was formed.
Second is that we cannot stop those changes.
Third some of those changes will seriously affect our enviorment.
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ReplyDeleteWhen Gulf Stream stops due to freshwater melt out of Greenland into the North Atlantic lowering the saline resistance ( which core samples demonstrate has happened many many times in geological past ) Northern Europe ( where we live ) will become Alaskan - forecast ( by international scientific accord ) is 20-100 years . .
ReplyDeleteHowever what is NOT factored in is the OVERALL global effect of this . .
For example in Antarctica the melting is balanced by the snowing - as more evaporate occurs in global oceans ( due to warming ) more snow falls over Antarctica ( thus topping up the melting ice ) . .
But glaciers are dropping of the edge faster also as a result of this heating . .
The current studies are trying to measure the coefficient ratios between snowfall and drop off of ice chunks . .
Fingers crossed ( and toes ) - but its coming down we feel.
Note:
IF all the ice in Antarctica melted the oceans of the world would rise by 200 feet.
' Day After Tomorrow ' definitely maybe.
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