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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
OK, so which is it? Our increased warming began 150 years ago with the industrial revolution, or 2,000 years ago????? You're contradicting yourself.
But don't worry, your nieces and their children won't have to deal with it, not unless they live to be 25,000 years old.
The 4 1/2 million year date is the beginning or our current ice age. There have been numerous ice ages prior to this. And during this time, there are 70-120,000 year cycles of glaciation and interglacial thaws driven by the power of the sun, Earth's orbit and changes in Earth's axis, among other things. Currently we are 20,000 years into a warming cycle. None of it has anything to do with fossil fuels. This is why the 4 1/2 million years mark is relevant--it explains where our climate came from and why we are here today.
Are we accelerating the warming??? Maybe, but there isn't enough data nor any conclusive proof. Are the alarmists correct? Maybe, only time will tell. But that time frame is measured in millennia, not the lifetime of your grand-nieces.
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150 years ago with the Industrial Revolution, there was not enough population on earth and not enough ICE vehicles to create an upper atmosphere reflecting layer of CO2. Whole forests were NOT being cut down for cattle to feed an overpopulated earth.
Today we have all those problems caused by excess heat on Earth. The excess heat is even causing psychological problems and increased crime and murders in the heat domes of big cities. The biggest problem is that the PROBLEM is and HAS been ignored for TOO long and now in the HEAT of this summer, it is biting us BAD !