Google Earth now shows CLIMATE CHANGE

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I'm sure there are natural forcings that play a factor in climate change.
 

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Being in an 'interglacial period' isn't a forcing. Some interglacial periods have lasted over 100,000 years.

Impossible. The UN/IPCC and Suzuki said as much... And they peer review everything

The IPCC said there is no such thing as a natural forcing?
 

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The general scientific consensus is that carbon emissions are currently the predominant factor in warming the Earth. This is in the context of all forcings, natural or anthropogenic, warming or cooling.
 

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The general scientific consensus is that carbon emissions are currently the predominant factor in warming the Earth. This is in the context of all forcings, natural or anthropogenic, warming or cooling.
The interglacial period started 13000 years ago without a single person using gasoline, coal or NG.
 

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...we are warming far too fast to be coming out of the last ice age, and the Milankovitch cycles that drive glaciation show that we should be, in fact, very slowly going into a new ice age (but anthropogenic warming is virtually certain to offset that influence).

It's a natural cycle
 

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We never exited the current ice age.

Going by hours of sunlight alone can you tell the difference between April 13 and August 13? Why is August warmer than April even though hours of sunlight are the same?
 

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Many studies have produced evidence that the two strongest orbital cycles (obliquity, 41 kyr and precession, 26 kyr) probably do drive changes in ice volume. The data in the figure have been fitted to these periods and also to the longer, much weaker 100 kyr eccentricity cycle. Over the past ~1 million years there have been a number of very strong glacial maxima and minima, spaced by 80,000 - 120,000 years, but the evidence for orbital forcing of these events is less secure. It is likely that this ~100 kyr cycle is controlled by some other as yet unknown mechanism
 

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Many studies have produced evidence that the two strongest orbital cycles (obliquity, 41 kyr and precession, 26 kyr) probably do drive changes in ice volume. The data in the figure have been fitted to these periods and also to the longer, much weaker 100 kyr eccentricity cycle. Over the past ~1 million years there have been a number of very strong glacial maxima and minima, spaced by 80,000 - 120,000 years, but the evidence for orbital forcing of these events is less secure. It is likely that this ~100 kyr cycle is controlled by some other as yet unknown mechanism


Point of Order:


Suzuki and the IPCC do not recognize those studies, nor have they allowed their scienticians to Peer Review them.

As such, neither the studies nor the supporting principles behind them exist in any way, shape or form.

That is all
 

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So if the glacial cycle were a year they can tell whether it's April or August going by sunlight hours alone?
 

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There has already been significant analysis of the climate during previous interglacial periods. This is scientific analysis by real scientists who's work is peer reviewed and published in well respected journals like Nature.

To date we know there is no completely analogous situation on the changing climate as compared to previous interglacial periods.