As we already know, the planet regulates itself....the global warming cult is still just a leftist power grab.

[Darkwind]

The right’s war on facts, truth, and science continues.

YOUR war on facts, truth, and science continue.

 

[Darkwind]

Got it. You believe climate science is a scam too. Why am I not surprised?

No.

Climate is real.
Science is real.
Climate Science is real.

Man MADE global warming is a scam.

 

[westwall]

The best models we have show that will change. I suppose this is where you claim science is a scam, right?

The best models are shit. They HAVE NEVER BEEN CORRECT.

In fact, when tested they ALL have a built in bias. That makes them not just useless, but outright opposite of factual observations.

Which makes them fraudulent.

 

[westwall]

Got it. You believe climate science is a scam too. Why am I not surprised?

Yes, AGW is a scam. Not climate science as a whole.

 

[westwall]

And that is based on what? There are still bison in North America why didn't they get exterminated? There have been elephants in Africa as long as there have been human beings, why weren't they hunted to extinction.

Historical fact, and paleontological evidence.

 

[alang1216]

Historical fact, and paleontological evidence.

I doubt either is anywhere definitive.

 

[BULLDOG]

Left wing "science," isn't science...it is a political agenda using science for its own ends...

Remarks like that are why we know you're nuts.

 

[BULLDOG]

The best models are shit. They HAVE NEVER BEEN CORRECT.

In fact, when tested they ALL have a built in bias. That makes them not just useless, but outright opposite of factual observations.

Which makes them fraudulent.

That's exactly what the crazy guy on the corner with a tinfoil hat had on his sign.

 

[konradv]

A study from MIT....

Now, a study by MIT researchers in Science Advances confirms that the planet harbors a “stabilizing feedback” mechanism that acts over hundreds of thousands of years to pull the climate back from the brink, keeping global temperatures within a steady, habitable range.

Just how does it accomplish this? A likely mechanism is “silicate weathering” — a geological process by which the slow and steady weathering of silicate rocks involves chemical reactions that ultimately draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and into ocean sediments, trapping the gas in rocks.

Scientists have long suspected that silicate weathering plays a major role in regulating the Earth’s carbon cycle. The mechanism of silicate weathering could provide a geologically constant force in keeping carbon dioxide — and global temperatures — in check. But there’s never been direct evidence for the continual operation of such a feedback, until now.

The new findings are based on a study of paleoclimate data that record changes in average global temperatures over the last 66 million years. The MIT team applied a mathematical analysis to see whether the data revealed any patterns characteristic of stabilizing phenomena that reined in global temperatures on a geologic timescale.

They found that indeed there appears to be a consistent pattern in which the Earth’s temperature swings are dampened over timescales of hundreds of thousands of years. The duration of this effect is similar to the timescales over which silicate weathering is predicted to act.

Earth can regulate its own temperature over millennia, new study finds

MIT researchers have confirmed that Earth harbors a “stabilizing feedback” mechanism that acts over hundreds of thousands of years to keep global temperatures within a steady, habitable range.

news.mit.edu

That's the problem, the time scale. Climate change deniers love to tell us about what happens over thousands of years, when the real problem is what's going to happen over the next hundred.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The right’s war on facts, truth, and science continues.

 

[westwall]

I doubt either is anywhere definitive.

They are absolutely definitive.

Try cracking a book sometime.

 

[westwall]

That's exactly what the crazy guy on the corner with a tinfoil hat had on his sign.

No, that is what the Journal of Statistics reported.

You know actual science.

 

[westwall]

That's the problem, the time scale. Climate change deniers love to tell us about what happens over thousands of years, when the real problem is what's going to happen over the next hundred.

You are the denier. Look up the Great Flood of 1862. Look up ANY year prior to 1800 and you will find that the storms were more powerful.

YOU, are the anti science deniers.

 

[ReinyDays]

Any dynamic system seeks equilibrium but there is nothing that says it will seek an equilibrium we would want. There is no natural process that sequesters CO2 at the rate we are releasing it into the atmosphere. It's OK though. There will always be nice places for billionaires to live.

This is a material falsehood ... we know how much fossil fuels we're burning, so we know how much carbon dioxide we're adding to the atmosphere ... it's high school algebra to calculate the "parts per million" increase per year ... and this is over double what we actually measure ...

Over half human CO2 emissions do not appear in the atmosphere ... if this is not a natural process, then you're relying on super-natural forces ... you know ... magic ... how are you including magic into your definition of "OK"? ...

 

[alang1216]

They are absolutely definitive.

Try cracking a book sometime.

Thanks for the confirmation, I was pretty sure you just made it up.

 

[westwall]

Thanks for the confirmation, I was pretty sure you just made it up.

Oh, incapable reading are you?

Thanks for the confirm.

 

[alang1216]

Oh, incapable reading are you?

Thanks for the confirm.

Reading what? You have no idea.

 

[Crick]

This is a material falsehood ... we know how much fossil fuels we're burning, so we know how much carbon dioxide we're adding to the atmosphere ... it's high school algebra to calculate the "parts per million" increase per year ... and this is over double what we actually measure ...

Over half human CO2 emissions do not appear in the atmosphere ... if this is not a natural process, then you're relying on super-natural forces ... you know ... magic ... how are you including magic into your definition of "OK"? ...

That's because they go into solution into the oceans and waterways. And with the temperature rising, more and more of that will be coming back out. Of course, along the way, the waters get acidified, particularly since the rate is so high the buffering from our precip cycle taking the water over the earth CaCO3 simply isn't given a chance to take place. The fossil fuel PR folks feeding you this bullshit love taking advantage of the weak science education of their target audience.