I watched a whole 45 minute documentary about the 'ice core dudes' only a couple of weeks ago. You'd expect it to be dull but it was absolutely fascinating stuff.
When people are called 'xxxxx' deniers, you know the establishment have lost the argument and are just resorting to propaganda.
That's because it is Not Global Warming, it is Climate Change. Some places get colder, some hotter, winds get more violent, etc.
Climate change is a perfectly normal process. It's constant, it never ceases, and has never ceased for millions of years.
I don't disagree that we could be more careful, but actually, we aren't. Electric cars are an ecological disaster, for a start. The complete inability to slow the destruction of the rainforests and the numerous species that depend on them is another case in point.
The climate WILL change. It is currently unstable, between the end of the last ice age and the next period of 'normality'. The three thousand years it's been more or less static (Little ice age from Tudor to Victorian times notwithstanding) are but three clicks of the second hand on the planetary clock.
Maybe that should be altered to read. . . 'it's anything that lives that must aim to try to keep on living, that will have no choice but to find ways to try to adapt to the conditions that may present themselves to us?'
Trouble is, that everything depends on everything else to adapt at the same time, and that might not be possible as timing, and adaption will be the key to survival!Yes, I agree with your amendment
There are many types of life on the planet that have lived through multiple previous episodes of "climate change" - that is, the normal cycles of the planet - we have to learn to be one of those or perish.
Well, no. Look at the Great Extinctions, where at least twice most of the then dominant life forms have been wiped out (Trilobites? Dinosaurs?)
Yes, but weren't they wiped out, or were in natural decline anyway, because of either their size, or the unavoidable changes in their environment? Trilobites - by the eventual lack of oxygen in the seas; and Dinosaurs - because they were in natural decline anyway, and then the asteroid wipe-out. So, they never got the chance for any natural time adaptions.
Farmer's might not agree about that though 'Trev!' Their normal farming (growing) practices, (as heard on the radio this morning) are apparently being reported as being out of sync?
I live in an area where the Romans grew grapes. Farmers aren't happy when they put seeds in the ground and every last one is eaten by slugs that had gotten out of control and eaten the lot!
You are quoting Artic Sea ice data from 2018.
This is another situation where environmental concerns are over-emphasised. Nuclear waste products can be processed in breeders to produce more nuclear fuel, extending their capacity for generation by three orders of magnitude; even the low-level wastes can be used as sources of power in radioisotope thermoelectric generators. These devices power most of NASA's spaceprobes to the outer solar system. Burying this stuff is not the best strategy.
Most 20th century designs were experimental, and filled with potential dangers. A mature nuclear power industry would be much safer than other systems. It already is safer than anything except solar.
