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Clark, a good question.
If the Mediterranean explodes in the next few months, that will be incredibly impactful, quickly.
I do not need to have much grasp of the relevant scientific knowledge to grasp that, these events do happen, repeatedly.
Some, older scientists, who no longer need to be fearful of their incomes have expressed views that rubbish the fantastical claims that we are entering the end of days, because of Global Warming.
I could give you a list of their names, you most likely know who I mean but you would rubbish these people as not being proper climate scientists. William Happer is one such.
Over the last third of a century it has been determined by scientists, that the Earth, has greened by at least twenty percent, roughly equal the the combined landmass of Canada and the U.s.A. That is a lot of extra greening. mostly caused by the extra Carbon dioxide that has entered our atmosphere.
https://www.noaa.gov/
This would seem to mean that at least some of the extra Carbon dioxide is being taken in by extra green leaf.
Only somewhere between 2% – 5% of the CO2 reaching the atmosphere can be attrributed to humans.
Each adult human exhales about one Kilogram of CO2 per day, so maybe about 7-8 billion K exits the mouths of humans to enter the air, not much we can do about that?
It does not seem there is a lot we can do the cut down how much extra CO2 enters the air, unless we cull ourselves, I do not see many people voting for that option?
I think peak Net Zero has come and gone.
We must all learn to live in a slightly warmer world.I am not a scientist, so i cannot help you in your quest to understand the intricacies of these matters.
Michael, the problem is that “global average temperature increase” became the popular measure of climate change, but really it’s a technical term. We’re not talking about our living rooms here; to heat the world this much takes the same energy as ten Hiroshima bombs per second. It has taken forty years but it has melted away nearly half the arctic sea ice, which in summer is now nearly gone, a third of what it was, and that’s just a for-instance.
“Global average temperature increase” is really just a way of making a smoothly changing graph to represent the total energy increase in the biosphere’s vastly complex systems of energy flows, each of which are changing in their own ways to dissipate the extra energy more quickly. Ice loss, ocean current changes, greening, flooding etc. are just a few of the subsets of such changes, and huge numbers of them interact.
“Global average temperature increase” makes it sound like it’s just getting a bit warmer, but that’s not what’s happening at all. Actually, “Global average temperature increase” is the final outcome of all these different changes, like your compost heap makes a bit of heat, but it tells you next to nothing about all the processes involved.
Happer hangs around with warmongers.
Michael, these retired scientists from other fields, check out who their associates are, check which think tanks, foundations etc. promote them. You’ll find that an awful lot are very close to the US war lobby.
I know what they do, I recognise their style. They promote a few oft-repeated sound bites and exaggerations to convince people that mainstream climatology is nonsense and must be corrupt. “Fireballs” and “the end of days” are part of this; you won’t find either in any IPCC report.
Proper science is about evidence, the scientific method, and which theory makes more accurate predictions, all of which can be checked.
Agree completely. It’s difficult to envisage the polar ice melts and what that actually looks like – one year it’s there, the next it’s gone.
But look what’s happening in the Alps and other mountain ranges. Here you can measure glacier retreat year on year and it’s breathtaking if you have actually visited these areas – even as recently as 50 years ago.
We have enjoyed a period of acquiescence; that is no longer the case.
