I guess global warming climate change disruption is OK to discuss. On a
non-political aspect to the discussion, I climbed up into these
mountains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torres_del_Paine_National_Park
(not to the top, but up a ways) that are ~2km high. Back during the ice
ages these mountains were under a kilometer of ice. Most of that ice
has melted (and the glaciers that are still there continue to melt, some
say accelerating) except for the Great Southern Ice Field that is back
behind them. The ice actually carved them up the way they are, which is
pretty cool (the dark sedimentary rock on top of gray granite).
We were there a year ago, it was actually quite warm there, which the
guides said was quite unusual and they attributed it to global warming
(they had not caught up with the new term yet). So I asked how long the
climate had been warming. They said, well from the glaciers melting it
has been the last several years. So then I asked what happened to all
the ice that had covered these mountains a few thousand years ago that
they had told us about. Ummm, uh, well, uhhhhh.... I never did get an
answer.
Still not sure about what happened back before CFPPs and SUVs, but if I
could get another foot or so of rise I could have water access, and my
limes and lemons would grow better. I might have to put a bulkhead
around my garage, but a minor nuisance.
--R
On 5/7/14 12:51 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote:
Yeah, those scientists must be paid to ignore that fact.
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Scott Ritchey <ritche...@nc.rr.com> wrote:
Speaking as an old guy who was a kid in the 50s, I find all this climate
change stuff almost funny. We were concerned about global nuclear war and
the extinction of all "higher" life forms on the planet. We built fallout
shelters, stockpiled food, and did "duck and cover" drills in school. So
what if sea level raises a couple feet or the mean temp goes up a couple of
degrees? Geologically speaking, CO2 levels and temps have been much higher
than now, without human intervention. Are there no good consequences of
climate change or are they just not mentioned? What can we in the west do
to rein in the main CO2 producer (China) except stop buying their stuff and
make it ourselves? Finally, all the concern is based on unproven models
which, as Max points out, may not be right.
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Tsk task, you haven't been reading your Drudge report lately, "climate
disruption" is the new approved term because there hasn't been any
measurable "global warming" in about 15 years...
Max Dillon,
Charleston SC
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