Majik » 09 Oct 2024, 7:11 am » wrote: ↑
Tuesday, October 08, 2024
Rasmussen Reports asked voters and
found, “Most American voters want more domestic oil and gas production even though about half believe climate change has reached dangerous levels.”
This means half of likely U.S. voters don’t believe it to be an existential threat, a split verdict reflective of the current electorate.What about the causes? “Among voters who believe the earth is experiencing climate change, 49% think humans are the primary driver of climate change, while 10% say climate change is mainly from natural causes, and 41% believe both humans and natural causes are involved.”
No one will argue that the climate is changing. We have had ice ages burying the upper Midwest under a mile-thick sheet of ice, the planet cooling enough to create these massive glaciers, with subsequent warming and melting.
Palm trees and
camels, now dotting the hot equatorial regions of the planet, once grew and lived in the ice-free arctic. This was millions of years before humans walked the Earth, a time when there was no “man” to create man-made global warming. The modern form of humans only
appeared 200,000 years ago. Yet the climate changed long before humans existed or had any influence on the climate.Perhaps the Earth’s climate is a bit more complicated than the climate models used today suggest.Today we are treated to “hottest day” stories during our Indian summer.
The Denver Post
exclaims, “Mile High City ties 132-year-old high-temperature record.” Does the Denver Post know if there was a warmer late September Denver day in the 1700s? Or the 700s? Or 2700 BC? Or 27 million BC?When describing planetary phenomena, a much longer time frame measurement is needed. One hundred years is a blink of an eye in the Earth’s history.What if we looked at a longer time frame say 485 million years?The Washington Post surprisingly did that. Here’s their
headline from a few weeks ago, “Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over the last 485 million years. Here’s the surprising place we stand now.”Researchers reconstructed global mean surface temperature using data assimilation, integrating geological data with climate model simulations. They
discovered that the Earth’s temperature has varied more dynamically than previously thought.”
This was based on a peer-reviewed paper published in the prestigious journal
Science.In the graph above, we are now in a small warming blip from the coldest planetary temperature in half a billion years.
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