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RE: A cold reality: we are not ready for the upcoming ice age

in #iceage5 years ago

Hi! I find your points of view very interesting and you have clearly properly investigated the facts. I do however have a few notes I want to make. Feel free to comment on them any way you like!

(1) As I understand it, the reason why we are programmed to believe in increasing global temperatures since the 80's as you say it, it is because the temperatures indeed show what looks like global cooling until then. I have added a graph with mean global temperatures. You can find many more online and they all show the thing I would like to discuss.


If you stop the graph at 1970 - 1980 people had all reasons to assume the earth was cooling, that's what the graphs clearly show. There hadn't been a significant sign of warming since the beginning of the Industrial revolution. eventually scientists concluded that the warming effect of CO2 was masked by the cooling effect of aerosols and other pollutants. It is only due to stricter regulations that we managed to reduce these emissions and thank god we have breathable air 😄. It is only then that we suddenly saw the effects of Co2 and other greenhouse gasses alone.

(2) Global warming does not necessarily mean that there can't be really harsh winters anymore. Destabilization of the jet stream might cause deviations which cause polar weather conditions or when a lake doesn't melt like it used to, and the increased evaporation causes more snowfall than usual. Also a little confirmation bias I believe, I do it myself all the time, but you seem to not mention the extreme life-taking heatwaves and droughts such as the Australian heatwave at this moment, or heatwaves in Europe last year, Pakistan with 65 deaths, Japan with 80 deaths, droughts in Oregon, the Mediterranean... I will leave out the headlines for not making this comment to long.

(3) Your statements about solar activity and climate are pretty good, although I would like to see where you got that solar activity is correlated with seismic/volcanic activity. I would be amazed to see that.

(4) Oh and where did you get that ice ages can happen quite suddenly? in as little as 20 years? I would just like to check that because that not how I imagined ice ages taking place. If you ment by that the Maunder minimum, that was indeed a sudden drop in temperatures in what happened to be one of the largest populated regions in that time, But I wouldn't call that a global ice age, especially since it lasted for a relatively short time on the geological time scale. Such an event can indeed cause a lot of devastation but I have no idea how solar activity is projected to 10+ years so I don't feel comfortable making assumptions on that topic.

The following part of your post are more beliefs I think and I would rather not get involved in that if you don't mind. I only wanted to comment on a few of your points. I'm sorry that it turned out to such a long comment 😊

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