December 21, 201510 yr The perilous business of predicting the future. Last week, powerful men from all over the world finished negotiating a new climate deal — the “Paris Agreement.” France’s foreign minister, the host of the “COP21” climate conference, called the plan an “historic turning point” in the battle against global warming. Our representative, John Kerry, called it “a victory for the planet.” The deal sets various goals for 2023, and for 2050 through 2100. It is absurd to think that the world’s foreign ministers can intelligently discuss what the world’s climate, industry, transportation, or energy markets will look like in 2023 — much less 2050 or 2100. Consider that 2023 is eight years from now. Eight years ago, did anyone at COP21 know Uber was coming? Did any of those foreign ministers know how popular drones would become? That new supersonic passenger planes would be in development? That four different private companies would be launching space flights? That two companies would be going forward with tests of “hyper-loop” transportation? Did they know that zero-friction “quantum levitation” would be demonstrated? Or that hydrogen-powered cars would become commercially available? Did they know about the fracking boom? Of course not. Michael Crichton — the brilliant novelist and thinker — posed this question in a speech at Caltech in 2003, re climate predictions for 2100. What environmental problems would men in 1900 have predicted for 2000? Where to get enough horses, and what to do with all the manure. “Horse pollution was bad in 1900,” said Crichton. How much worse would someone in 1900 expect it to “be a century later, with so many more people riding horses? Read more at: Climate Change Predictions
December 21, 201510 yr Just one little burp by Mt Etna a couple of weeks ago has already put more than 10,000 times the CO2 into the atmosphere than mankind has in our ENTIRE time on earth.. Climate change is real, but MAN MADE climate change is bunk..
December 21, 201510 yr Just one little burp by Mt Etna a couple of weeks ago has already put more than 10,000 times the CO2 into the atmosphere than mankind has in our ENTIRE time on earth.. Climate change is real, but MAN MADE climate change is bunk.. Source? Evidence? Anything? Do volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans?
December 21, 201510 yr Source? Evidence? Anything? Do volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans? Here's one that I'd consider before the one you posted, with all due respect. Volcanic Gases and Climate Change Overview
December 21, 201510 yr Here's one that I'd consider before the one you posted, with all due respect. Volcanic Gases and Climate Change Overview We'll go with that one, then.
December 21, 201510 yr The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere exceeds all predictions from 20 plus years ago. They missed it. As the Vostok ice cores show there is relationship between CO2 and temperature. But which is the chicken and which is the egg is not understood, nor settled. Correlation is not (ncessarily) causation. And if we get the Mt. Tambora-like eruption we will want to figure how to make things warmer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
December 22, 201510 yr I've read all the articles denouncing Ian Plimer's study.. Mostly journalist referring to a U.S. study that says otherwise... So I guess it's a matter of who you believe...
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