Death knell for AGW

petros

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According to you? Tell me what's the relative change in each of those forcings over the past century, then we can haggle about what amongst your claims is malarkey.



Yes... like the sun. If you make a list of all the factors controlling climate, it's pretty long. If you make a list of the causes of our current climate change, it's a much shorter list.

Ask a painter how positive and negative charges reduce over spray and you'll get a clue as to how magnetism f.cks with jet streams. Is that KISS enough for you?
 

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Seeing that there were no anthropogenic 'forcings' throughout many/most of these cyclical glaciation events, I find it disingenuous (if not anthro-arrogant) to presume that we, as humanity, have any tangible impact whatsoever

So what if there were no anthropogenic forcings? Of course there were not, and why would you think that matters? So you're like Petros then, you bring up comparisons but fail to appreciate the difference between the scenarios, a difference which matters. It's not assumption that we have a tangible impact, it's based on measurements CM. That is precisely what makes it tangible.

This argument of yours isn't logical. There are plenty of things which have happened in Earth's history which humans have managed to also have impacts on. You know floods have lots of impacting factors, right? Humans have managed to affect flood patterns and severity. But if we examined previous flood cycles hundreds of thousands of years ago, we wouldn't find much evidence of human impacts. Now what part of that would then seem 'anthro-arrogant' to you, to say that humans have an impact on flooding?

Seriously, not logical.

Pete, hows that list coming?
 

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So what if there were no anthropogenic forcings? Of course there were not, and why would you think that matters? So you're like Petros then, you bring up comparisons but fail to appreciate the difference between the scenarios, a difference which matters. It's not assumption that we have a tangible impact, it's based on measurements CM. That is precisely what makes it tangible.

This argument of yours isn't logical. There are plenty of things which have happened in Earth's history which humans have managed to also have impacts on. You know floods have lots of impacting factors, right? Humans have managed to affect flood patterns and severity. But if we examined previous flood cycles hundreds of thousands of years ago, we wouldn't find much evidence of human impacts. Now what part of that would then seem 'anthro-arrogant' to you, to say that humans have an impact on flooding?

Seriously, not logical.

Pete, hows that list coming?

What you are unable to do is articulate any difference in the cycles to begin with regardless of humanity's influence or not.

Until you can do this, any argument you forward is based entirely on incidental events/issues, etc.

Measure ghgs, anthro inputs and CO2 all you like, but in the end, the natural cycle is the dominant factor that has proven itself over and over and over again.
 

petros

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What you are unable to do is articulate any difference in the cycles to begin with regardless of humanity's influence or not.

Until you can do this, any argument you forward is based entirely on incidental events/issues, etc.

Measure ghgs, anthro inputs and CO2 all you like, but in the end, the natural cycle is the dominant factor that has proven itself over and over and over again.

It,s a helluva lot cooler this interglacial event than the last. Neanderthals really f.cked up back then.
 

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The earth is lying:
Clitantic scientists trapped in Antarctic ice claim expanding sea ice caused by 'global warming' - But data and studies refute claims.​
You'd think these scienticians would be aware of the record expansion of Antarctic sea ice in the last few years, but "nope" springs eternal:
(Chris) Turney (a professor of climate change at Australia's University of New South Wales) explained that "climate change may have prompted the iceberg to shatter and float into the previously open sea where the mostly Australian team finds itself stranded."​
Yeah, that's the ticket: An iceberg corralled the vessel, and then froze the open sea for miles around it into an impenetrable, contiguous, solid mass of ice so thick that icebreakers couldn't reach the ship...because of global warming.
It's cold out there, but it's a fun cold.



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What you are unable to do is articulate any difference in the cycles to begin with regardless of humanity's influence or not.

Previous cycles were driven by our planets orbital mechanics. Currently we are not experiencing more insolation at all. That's a huge difference. The cycle of glacials and interglacials is dominated by orbital changes and greenhouse feedbacks to those changes. This shouldn't be news to anyone who posts regularly in these threads. It's very old news.

Measure ghgs, anthro inputs and CO2 all you like, but in the end, the natural cycle is the dominant factor that has proven itself over and over and over again.

What natural cycle? You're the one who brought up comparisons, yet you don't actually know the differences between those in the past and now, yet in your ignorance you're claiming it's all natural cycles. So provide some evidence then. Perhaps you can work with Petros on that list of forcings and relative changes.
 

petros

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Previous cycles were driven by our planets orbital mechanics. Currently we are not experiencing more insolation at all. That's a huge difference. The cycle of glacials and interglacials is dominated by orbital changes and greenhouse feedbacks to those changes. This shouldn't be news to anyone who posts regularly in these threads. It's very old news. .
Why would you be expecting insolation and orbital deviations when exiting the cycle as we head back into glaciation right on schedule?
 

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Previous cycles were driven by our planets orbital mechanics. Currently we are not experiencing more insolation at all. That's a huge difference. The cycle of glacials and interglacials is dominated by orbital changes and greenhouse feedbacks to those changes. This shouldn't be news to anyone who posts regularly in these threads. It's very old news.

What natural cycle? You're the one who brought up comparisons, yet you don't actually know the differences between those in the past and now, yet in your ignorance you're claiming it's all natural cycles. So provide some evidence then. Perhaps you can work with Petros on that list of forcings and relative changes.

More suppositions based on hypothesis and theory.

You speak as if these factors now cease to contribute in a manner as if they no longer exist.

Time to face facts here; 10-15 years ago, the warmists were wrong, their edited models spawned from those initial mistakes were wrong again, and the latest round has been highlighted with the AGW expedition to the Antarctic (to prove global warming no less) has been stuck in the ice along with all of the rescue vessels sent to assist.

I can't possibly think of anything more humiliating
 

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More suppositions based on hypothesis and theory.

You speak as if these factors now cease to contribute in a manner as if they no longer exist.

Time to face facts here; 10-15 years ago, the warmists were wrong, their edited models spawned from those initial mistakes were wrong again, and the latest round has been highlighted with the AGW expedition to the Antarctic (to prove global warming no less) has been stuck in the ice along with all of the rescue vessels sent to assist.

I can't possibly think of anything more humiliating
And a cold snap in U.S. Midwest that hasn't seen the like in 20 years .But that is just weather .
 

petros

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I can't possibly think of anything more humiliating
I can. Being duped by one fossil fuel industry to eliminate another while footing the bill to expand the one you were duped into supporting because they convinced you it was green.

Exclusive: How the Sierra Club Took Millions From the Natural Gas Industry—and Why It Stopped | TIME.com

Sierra Club took $26M from gas industry to fight coal-fired plants | TheHill

Who is funding the attack on frakking for NG? The nuclear industry?
 

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Water....head. The sun turns off every night?

The moon goes from around +150 deg C to -150 deg C between its day and night. If there is no greenhouse effect, then why doesn't the Earth do the same thing?

I never knew that there was only one variable in the equation.... You ought to contact the IPCC and let 'em know that their climate models are too complex and that's why each and every one of them has failed

Nonsense. Modelling the radiation physics alone, and ignoring the GCMs and feedback effects actually matches observations quite nicely. To date, anyways.

Man being pretty damn clever has figured out to bend light with EM but that might be too complex for you noggin.

Light is EM.