02-21-2019, 12:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-21-2019, 03:03 PM by Alan V.)
Climate Change
Climate Change
(02-21-2019, 06:56 AM)Deltabravo Wrote: The only other argument one can make for human activities warming the entire system is the emission of gas such as CO2 but that has been shown to be false because it lags behind climate change. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1...l-warming/
The rise of CO2 lags several hundred years behind the warming of the planet, caused by changes in the Milankovitch cycles, in natural climate change, which is not what we are presently experiencing. Three points: (1) that rise in CO2 amplifies the warming, more or less doubling it in the natural cycle, (2) Milankovitch cycles are too slow to account for present changes, and are in fact out of phase with any present warming, and (3) measurable greenhouse gas emissions are more than enough to account for the warming we are observing. Present CO2 levels would, in fact, have led to even more warming of the atmosphere if (a) 93% of the heat was not being absorbed by the ocean, and (b) particulates in the atmosphere caused by industrial emissions were not reflecting a fair amount of sunlight.
Yet again, you fail by being misinformed about the science. You are repeating fossil fuel industry-funded denialist talking points?
Here is a website with a long list of denialist talking points, with the scientific answers to them:
https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php
If you read through the information already provided and easily accessible, you will find that the conversation about climate change has progressed considerably beyond your concerns.