Re: Global warming?

The climate is not static, it never has been, so the answer is yes climate change is taking place. We could be entering a warming up phase, but come the winter we could all be discussing how it appears to be cooling instead.

There was this weatherman on Jeremy Vine a few weeks back, and he said that there was a lot of sunspot activity and it has a direct effect on our weather patterns. He reckoned that over the next few years it would produce some very exciting times for weather watchers, with extremes of weather related events. So hold on to your sunscreen and umbrellas, it's going to get a little bumpy here on planet Earth....

Re: Global warming?

The earth has been in existence for approximately 4.6 billion years, during the earth's climate has been in constant state change, alternating between periods of cooling and warming, periods of high oxygen content and periods with much lower oxygen content, in other words the earth's climate has been a constant state of transition. These periods of climate change normally occurs over hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, but with the invention of the gasoline engine in the late 1800's, the burning of fossil fuels, accompanied by the over population of our planted, has caused the earth climate to change faster, since especially the early 1900's in such a short period than any other period in the history of the earth.

Re: Global warming?

In my lifetime of 72 years, I have not noticed one tad of temperature increase.

I'm in total agreement with those who point out the earth is in constant flux --- man or no man.

I can just imagine the talk around the Neanderthal campfire.

"Hey, Hughie, have you noticed that the glaciers are shrinking?"

Hughie: "yeah, I saw that, but at least the bison, elk and deer are coming back onto our turf".

"Yeah, that's true. But, what about all those Cro-Magnon men migrating into our area?"

Hughie: Oh, man. Don't worry about that. There will always be lots of us Neanderthals".


With a billion or so years left to the planet, there will be plenty of time for dozens, even hundreds of other "intelligent" lifeforms to evolve. Not that we are all that terribly intelligent.

Re: Global warming?

Hi

The climate has always changed, it is just changing faster due to what we are pumping into the air.

At the moment the population is moving north because of food and water shortages.

We are due another ice age, the Africans will be building a wall to keep us out.

Re: Global warming?

Food for thought

The most recent ice age ended aprox. 11,500 years ago (depending upon which part of the planet you are speaking of)

12,000 years ago, in the area of what is now Los Angeles, the fauna included: camels, horses, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, mastodons, mammoths, giant sloths, and the enormous flat-faced cave bears.

The climate began to change and the animals could not adapt quickly enough. By 11,000 years ago, all of those animals had become extinct (in that area). Of course camels and horses survived in other areas of the planet.

Millions of their bones, and reconstructed skeleton exhibits, can now be seen in the George C.Page Museum, in Los Angeles. How did we end up with so many bones? There is a naturally occurring tar pit, called "The La Brea Tar Pits" The animals came down to drink at the water which collected on the surface of the tar. They quickly became stuck and ended up as a permanent addition.

All of that occurred in only 1,000 years and it did so naturally, without the intervention of man who happened to be just barely arriving.

Re: Global warming?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yesyhQkYrQM&sns=em

Do you remember the song " in the year 2525" from our youth , we smiled at the lyrics didn't we .

Hope the link works

Re: Global warming?

I reckon God should tear it down and start again. Not smiling so much at those lyrics now are we. They knew back then the world would get bad