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The climate has been changing for billions of years... CONSTANTLY...It has been doing that at night for billions of years... CONSTANTLY...
The climate has been changing for billions of years... CONSTANTLY...
different weather.
Yes, the climate is constantly changing.No not CONSTANTLY. It changes, but the change can be nothing for millions of years.
Really? What was the thawing attributed to? Giant hair dryers? Would it have happened if there was no sun?
Logic dictates that the sun is at east a contributor to any planetary warming.
Be still my beating heart...FOR THE LAST TIME:
Obviously. But, think about this. Imagine there were two identical planets in the Earth's orbit. Both of them 92 million miles away with the Earth's eccentricities and all that. But some super-duper aliens have come by and, as a joke, have painted one of them as white as white can be and the other as black as black can be. One has an albedo of 1.0 while the other has an albedo of 0.0. Let a million years go by. Will those two planets have the same average temperature?Little known fact. The bright yellow thing we see in the sky during daylight hours (when not obscured by clouds) is the primary culprit in the heating of our planet, our atmosphere and our oceans.
And I use the term “culprit” in jest.
Ok. That one borders on amusing.Ar you back AGAIN? ; - )
Be still my beating heart...
As hypotheticals go, that one should. If you’re arguing that the ability of black to absorb heat while white reflects it should be expected to lead to a hotter black Earth, I believe that’s true.Obviously. But, think about this. Imagine there were two identical planets in the Earth's orbit. Both of them 92 million miles away with the Earth's eccentricities and all that. But some super-duper aliens have come by and, as a joke, have painted one of them as white as white can be and the other as black as black can be. One has an albedo of 1.0 while the other has an albedo of 0.0. Let a million years go by. Will those two planets have the same average temperature?
I am. My point is that it is possible for changes on the Earth to affect what its average temperature will be without any change taking place on the sun at all.Ok. That one borders on amusing.
As hypotheticals go, that one should. If you’re arguing that the ability of black to absorb heat while white reflects it should be expected to lead to a hotter black Earth, I believe that’s true.
But, as I believe you know; all analogies limp. Yours is almost crippled.
Any comparison between black absorbing almost all the sun’s radiant energy and atmospheric trace levels of CO2 capturing some small part of the reflected radiant energy is a terrible analogy.
If you are instead only using that example as a launching-pad for further consideration, it may have a bit more merit.
But that’s not contested.I am. My point is that it is possible for changes on the Earth to affect what its average temperature will be without any change taking place on the sun at all.
Yes.But that’s not contested.
Of course changes on Earth can have possible effects on overall average Earth temperatures. The question is not whether our climate can change. We already know it changes.
Well, no scientist currently questions it.The question is strictly whether the additional amounts of CO2 into our atmosphere caused directly by human activity constitutes a significant factor in the climate change we currently see and which we forecast for down the road.
Well, as some of the response to that, let me point out that the Earth is in a cooling phase of our glacial cycle and has been for the last 5,000 years AND that the current rate of warming is seven to ten times as fast as any glacial warming in the past million years and beyond.I believe CrusaderFrank has challenged the claim that it has much impact. And as some evidence of that position, some of us point to ice ages. They came. They went. They came again. They receded again. All of that happening well before humans even made cars or planes or mined coal, etc.
That’s not true.Well, no scientist currently questions it.
On what basis do you maintain that we are currently in a cooling phase?Well, as some of the response to that, let me point out that the Earth is in a cooling phase of our glacial cycle and has been for the last 5,000 years AND that the current rate of warming is seven to ten times as fast as any glacial warming in the past million years and beyond.
Yes, the climate is constantly changing.
It is not static for millions of years at a time.
The changes may not be great enough to cause catastrophic consequences to life, but they are constantly happening and will continue to do so.
I don't subscribe to the theory that solar activity is the sole cause of climate change, but I'm also intelligent enough to realize that the sun plays a major role in the heating of the planet and thus also in its general climate. Do you deny this?
... can explain how Co2 melted North America and froze Greenland at the same time, because Co2 does NOTHING, and THAT is the TRUTH no matter how many fraudulent left wing fudgebaking liars claiming to be "scientists" say it is....no scientist currently
How did THE SUN melt North America and freeze Greenland at the same time??
I don’t watch Fox.Clearly, you are addicted to parroting Faux.
You don’t think the sun warms the earth and imply I’m the one with an IQ of 5?IQ under 5, cannot answer basic questions, keeps repeating the same BS over and over...
Liar. Zionist Fascists lie, it is who YOU are....