NOAA: Global warming 'irreversible' for next 1000 years, reducing CO2 emissions won't help

[Rocky_nBullwinkle 6]

Now, who would think Al Gore reads the posts at VJ? I watched his opening testimony this morning, and he began by quoting my post last night, not word for word, but close enough!

The "planet" survives or doesn't survive, no matter what man does. The real question is, "Will man survive?" The core of that debate is, "What is man's role in climate change?" Small? Large? There is a secondary debate, that is, "What can man do to secure his continueing survival?" --Me!

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Edited January 28, 2009 by Rocky_nBullwinkle

[dalegg 143]

This is a freebie...

Earth's climate is complex and influenced by many things, particularly changes in its orbit, volcanic eruptions, and changes in the energy emitted from the Sun. It is well known that the world has experienced warm or cold periods in the past without any interference from humans. The ice ages are good examples of global changes to the climate, and warm periods have seen grapes grown across much of Britain.

Over the several hundred thousand years covered by the ice core record, the temperature changes were primarily driven by changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun. Over this period, changes in temperature did drive changes in carbon dioxide (CO2). Since the Industrial Revolution (over the last 100 years), CO2 concentrations have increased by 30% due because to human-induced emissions from fossil fuels.

The bottom line is that temperature and CO2 concentrations are linked. In recent ice ages, natural changes in the climate, such as those due to orbit changes, led to cooling of the climate system. This caused a fall in CO2 concentrations which weakened the greenhouse effect and amplified the cooling. Now the link between temperature and CO2 is working in the opposite direction. Human-induced increases in CO2 are driving the greenhouse effect and amplifying the recent warming.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pres...ce/myths/3.html

I want a new measurement after that Volcano in Alaska blows.

[Nessa 23]

we're gonna be dead, so who cares?