Thread: Any doubts about Climate Change?

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Australia’s newly elected prime minister

Tony Abbot is a right wing christian nutbag whose conservative party is funded by the mining industry amongst others in Australia. He has no credentials to even comment on climate change and is talking out of his twenty-third arsehole for a political agenda.

Originally Posted by ENT

The daftest suggestion made this century is that humans are the sole cause of climate change.

I know you know what an equilibrium point is.

Originally Posted by ENT

Climate change is an ongoing geophysical cycle, originating long before any life even existed on this planet.

Human emissions of carbon compounds into the atmosphere and oceans have induced positive reinforcement in the system of the already increasing temperature control mechanisms of the planet. Our emissions are speeding up the geological cycle of glacial/interglacial turnover by a factor of 8 according to the last paper I looked at on the matter which was several years ago now. That means that the oncoming inter-glacial change is going to occur in approximately 100 years instead of 800 (as an example, past analogues have been from 1,000 - 10,000 years at different points) with the rest of the 700 years of 'normal' warming to come. The problem we face is not the temperature, we will adapt and cope to it and we would have to in 1000 or so years anyway, but the effect such rapid change will have on the environment and therefore plant and animal species that we depend on.