Global Warming ??

[ed84c]

But BEFORE the Carbon emissions there was an expnential decrease in earth temperature. If governemnts fund reserach and tax funds government and the use of and oil based economy provides the taxes, I shouldnt pay much attenttion to 'scientific resarch'

[Aardvark]

But BEFORE the Carbon emissions there was an expnential decrease in earth temperature. If governemnts fund reserach and tax funds government and the use of and oil based economy provides the taxes, I shouldnt pay much attenttion to 'scientific resarch'

 

 

When was there a decrease in the Earths temperature? It's been increasing fairly consistently since the end of the Pleistocene.

 

And it seems a bit unfair to decry all scientific research.

[Timmyotool]

In the Day after tommorow how did global WARMING lead to the ice age?

[Ophiolite]

In the Day after tommorow how did global WARMING lead to the ice age?

Ignorant, highly paid scriptwriters.

[Artorius]

actually the film only exagerated the speed of it all,the outcome however would be similar.If which scientists already know,the gulf stream is cooled by the icecaps continually melting were screwed.

[JohnB]

actually the film only exagerated the speed of it all

 

Did it? We seem to have been conditioned to believe that changes in climate occur very slowly, they may have been faster.

 

Take the ending of the last Ice Age. I, and probably others were taught that between 12,000 and 8,000 years ago the "ice gradually receded". The impression has always been that it was a slow process.

 

Why is it that modern thought, with the exception of asteroid impact, always excludes catastrophic events?

[GutZ]

Because they lack vision, imagination, foresight, compassion and may even be slightly intellectually challenged.

 

How does apathy apply to half that?

[Tolmosoff]

Easy 70 % of earths ocean that is very warm causes moisture and a cloud covers the whole earth to block off our sun that rain and high seas will Glaciate our earth again is call ( recycle ).

[Phi for All]

Why is this 5 year old thread being resurrected?

[JohnB]

I have the feeling that a search for a particular topic gets done and the resurrector posts without looking at the date.

[scalbers]

Has any authority made a calculation re the levels of atmospheric CO2 which would come about if ALL carboniferous fossil fuel ( coal , oil etc ) left in the world was combusted ? Also any predicted effect on climate . All such fuel is a product of photosynthesis millenia ago & that required CO2 which means CO2 must have been much higher then & perhaps climate much hotter . I know it was but how much hotter ------

 

The answer is 5000 Gigatons of carbon as published here:

 

http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~archer/reprints/archer.2005.fate_co2.pdf