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Re: Record breaking heat
Aug 24, 2010, 18:25
Merrick wrote:
Eighthly: Are you really saying that less polar ice - replacing vast areas of white area with dark - won't affect the earth's reflective ability?


It will, of course, affect the earth's reflective ability, but the earth has been here before. You do know that the Arctic ice cover has been recovering steadily since the 2007 minimum?

Merrick wrote:
Ninthly: Are you really saying that heating permafrost peat bogs won't - as is already being observed - make them melt then dry? And that drying won't make them decay, releasing their carbon?


Dunno, quite frankly, it may, but I'm yet to be convinced it will upset the climate given all other factors.

Merrick wrote:
Tenthly: Do you understand that, of the wide range of temperatures that the earth can survive under, humans can only prosper in a very small part of the spectrum? Are you happy if 'achieving equilibrium' means mass extinctions such as at the end of the Permian period?


It may be better for the planet in the long run tbh, but having spent long periods in Norway and Gulf of Guinea, I can believe that 'man' can thrive in a range of temperatures outwith the doomsday scenario of the IPCC scaremongering. The constant rising crescendo of doomsday scenarios are pretty funny when the truth is most likely quite different.
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