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Tom
Lv 4
Tom asked in EnvironmentGlobal Warming · 6 years ago

How come global warming keeps sliding back into global cooling, is god messing with us!!!?

Update:

The earth just came out of the last ice age about 11 or 12 thousand years ago and now we are in a long warming period of about another12 thousand years!!! Geo cycles last about 20 to 25 thousand years!!! SUCK IT UP AND ENJOY!!!

Update 2:

So you are saying the only cycle we go through is the ice age cycle and when it stops we just go right back into it and the earth does not heat up on its own, so then why does life continue with out any warm ups???

Update 3:

The earths axis has shifted recently did man cause that too or haven't you figured it out yet, and since it shifted hasn't it changed any weather patterns??? MAN IS NOT CASING GLOBAL WARMING AND IF THEY WERE SO WHAT IT GETS COLD HERE!!!

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  • 6 years ago

    What geo cycles are you talking about? I expect that if you try to provide specifics you will find that your claim is entirely made up and very wrong. There are no such "geo cycles"

    The earth's climate has gone through long term changes due to the cycles of the orbit around the sun, the Milankovitch Cycles. These are cycles of 100,000 years, 41,000 years and 23,000 years. They triggered the coming and going of ice ages by changing the insolation hitting the 65th parallel north during summer.

    The natural warming from these cycles peaked about 6,000 years ago and the earth would naturally be in a slow cooling pattern leading to an another ice age in more than 60,000 years from now. You may be unaware of these cycles but if you were to actually educate yourself about what paleoclimatolgy knows you would understand better.

    Naturally the earth should be in a slow cooling pattern for 600 centuries and in a slight but more rapid cooling pattern due to several low 11--year cycles of solar activity (sun spots). Those 11-year cycles can have affects over a few decades. Despite these natural cycles that would be causing cooling, the earth's atmosphere and oceans are very rapidly warming.

    Rather than making stuff up, learn about the real science. Learn for yourself how much climatologists have learned about climate over the past 60 years since the first published paper on the effects of CO2 in the atmosphere.

  • Trevor
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Think about what you’re saying – if we came out of one ice age that means we’re now moving toward the next one, Earth should be cooling.

    ‘Ice-ages’ are not a 20,000 to 25,000 years cycle they’re a 95,000 year cycle caused by the eccentricity (shape) of Earth’s orbit around the Sun. The warming phase is greatly amplified by feedback mechanisms here on Earth and so the cooling phase lasts 84,000 years and the warming phase for 11,000 years.

    The last warming phase ended 10,000 years ago, we’re still in the present interglacial but are headed toward the next glacial maximum, this will occur in 74,000 years time.

    The graph below shows the average global temps for the last 12,000 years:

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/trevorandclaire/1731...

    As for global cooling, the world is warmer now than at any time for at least 100,000 years. Last year was the warmest on record and in the last 20 years we’ve had 19 of the warmest years. 2015 to date is on track to be the new warmest year. If you have any real evidence of global cooling then please provide it.

  • Kano
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    More lying B.S. from Trevor, a graph from wikipedia (definately a warming proponent)

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca...

    http://www.google.com.ph/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&...

    This was a period when there were Hippos in the rivers Thames and the Rhine.

  • 6 years ago

    But if this warming was just natural, how would Algore make money from it, and how would liberals justify passing more laws restricting individual freedoms?

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    there is no global cooling

  • Bruce
    Lv 5
    6 years ago

    your question makes no sense.

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