Climate change

[hemet dennis]

England is on my bucket list... I HAVE to go there..

Go during the summer. It's usually some time in July, or perhaps March, and lasts for about six hours.

Don't let him lie to you, it doesn't last that long.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Sounds like summer in San Francisco, which is usually in October!

 

[hemet dennis]

You can tell when it's summer in Oregon that's when the people rust.

 

[thaiturkey]

Don't let him lie to you, it doesn't last that long.

 

[GardenerGal]

During my lifetime Britain has had heatwaves, freeze ups, droughts, floods and hurricanes. It's said that Britain has weather but no climate! Each change has brought out new predictions about climate change and each one has been confounded by the next year's weather.

Again, that's why it is necessary to look at a long period, such as tens of thousands of years, to get a bigger piece of the picture. That's where we see the "zig-zag" upward and downward trends of global warming and cooling. As I pointed out before, these climate shifts are a pattern that is the visible effect of a feedback loop of plantary activity - both geological and biological.

At this time, we are on the warming end of the pattern, but as was noted, the climate is warming at a much more rapid rate than in previous warming trends indicated by core drillings and other research. That's where the questions of "why" and "how" pop up, and why human population growth and concommittant fossil-fuel-burning activity is seen as at least part of the reason.

 

[thaiturkey]

Again, that's why it is necessary to look at a long period, such as tens of thousands of years, to get a bigger piece of the picture. That's where we see the "zig-zag" upward and downward trends of global warming and cooling. As I pointed out before, these climate shifts are a pattern that is the visible effect of a feedback loop of plantary activity - both geological and biological.

At this time, we are on the warming end of the pattern, but as was noted, the climate is warming at a much more rapid rate than in previous warming trends indicated by core drillings and other research. That's where the questions of "why" and "how" pop up, and why human population growth and concommittant fossil-fuel-burning activity is seen as at least part of the reason.

But only a very small part, according to some independent scientific research, despite the propganda to the contrary.

 

[GardenerGal]

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If we were to look at that "independent scientific research," I'll bet we'd find that it was sponsored either by petroleum/fossil fuels corporations or conservative "think tanks" populated by individuals heaviily invested in the petroleum/fossil fuels industries.

 

[Georgia116]

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Everything is cyclical.....what will be will be as far as the climate...it is just the "nature" of the beast!

 

[GardenerGal]

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Everything is cyclical.....what will be will be as far as the climate...it is just the "nature" of the beast!

Sure. But this time, the warming part of the cycle is happening at a much faster pace than in previous cycles. That's the issue and conundrum, because so many human lives (not to mention other living things) are being and will be affected by the physical changes to weather and environment that the warming is triggering, and which will become more intense. That bizarre things could happen in our own lifetimes, and not to some distant descendents thousands of years in the future, should make us sit up and take notice!

 

[hemet dennis]

Sure. But this time, the warming part of the cycle is happening at a much faster pace than in previous cycles. That's the issue and conundrum, because so many human lives (not to mention other living things) are being and will be affected by the physical changes to weather and environment that the warming is triggering, and which will become more intense. That bizarre things could happen in our own lifetimes, and not to some distant descendents thousands of years in the future, should make us sit up and take notice!

Well I like the warm and hate the cold so I'll be fine.