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Eclectic at 04:59 AM on 8 February 2020Earth is heating at a rate equivalent to five atomic bombs per second
Ed Leaver @6 ,
I am appalled at your suggestion.
Surely you were meaning to say <FestivusTreeLights> [for Seinfeld fans]
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Eclectic at 04:56 AM on 8 February 2020Earth is heating at a rate equivalent to five atomic bombs per second
Franklefkin @5 ,
Yay ! 0.09 C/decade sounds good. Or even 0.14 C/decade . . . or maybe 0.20 C/decade (depending on which decade you wish to ignore).
Trouble is, the pesky ole planet - a.k.a. the real physical world - keeps on responding to the increasing heat, rather than to the kitchen-thermometer figure showing on the cupboard door. World ice keeps melting, world sea level keeps rising . . . gosh, it's almost enough to make ordinary folks think we got ourselves a real problem!
Easier to go with the parable of the frog in the warming pot of water ~ just hang around, eyes closed, saying nothing . . . until we croak ;-)
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ed leaver at 03:33 AM on 8 February 2020Earth is heating at a rate equivalent to five atomic bombs per second
Color me old, but I prefer units of <ChristmasTreeLights>/<square meter>. Easier to visualize. 1.2W/m^2 is roughly 10 mini incandesent lights per square meter of land — UL won't let us string them over water — or nearly one of the older 5 W bulbs we so fondly remember. Countinuous, 24/7, throughout the year.
The problem with Hiros/second is they're so effervescent. That, and they are used by many of the No Nukes! contigent to simultaneously whip up anti-nuclear power sentiment, and consquent excuse to frack more gas and burn more coal.
So I stick with ChistmasTrees/m^2. They're a constant reminder and are carbon neutral.
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franklefkin at 02:21 AM on 8 February 2020Earth is heating at a rate equivalent to five atomic bombs per second
"...compares to the energy in Hurricane Sandy, or 6.0 magnitude earthquakes, or Big Bens full of dynamite, or millions of lightning bolts."
Why not keep it simple, in degrees C. So it is ~0.09 C/decade, less than the capability of the instruments to differentiate.
Moderator Response:[DB] "So it is ~0.09 C/decade, less than the capability of the instruments to differentiate"
Incorrect. Couple with the power of large numbers and using mathematical averaging, Scientists have quantified the warming caused by human activities since preindustrial times and compared that to natural temperature forcings.
Changes in the sun's output falling on the Earth from 1750-2011 are about 0.05 Watts/meter squared.
By comparison, human activities from 1750-2011 warm the Earth by about 2.83 Watts/meter squared (AR5, WG1, Chapter 8, section 8.3.2, p. 676).
What this means is that the warming driven by the GHGs coming from the human burning of fossil fuels since 1750 is over 50 times greater than the slight extra warming coming from the Sun itself over that same time interval.
https://science2017.globalchange.gov/chapter/2/#fig-2-3
In the early 20th century human activities caused about one-third of the observed warming and most of the rest was due to low volcanic activity. Since about 1950 it's all humans and their activities.
https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0555.1
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcc.522
Further, the detection of the human fingerprint in the observed tropospheric warming caused by the increase in atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases like CO2 has reached 6-sigma levels of accuracy.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0424-xPlease cite credible for sources for claims running counter to the published science. Thanks!
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MA Rodger at 20:19 PM on 7 February 2020Earth is heating at a rate equivalent to five atomic bombs per second
eschwarzbach @2,
Like Eclectoic @3, I presuime you meant to cite Johnson, Lyman & Loeb (2016) 'Improving estimates of Earth's energy imbalance' [full text] who do estimate the global energy imbalance 2005-15 as being "0.71±0.10 W m^-2" (which I calculate as 4 Hiroshima's/second). The OP cites Cheng et al (2020) which puts the annual increase in ocean heat content (the bulk of global warming due to the imbalance is ocean warming) for 2015-19 at 19ZJ = 1.2 Wm^-2.
The net global forcing is a different number of which the energy imbalance is but a part. Additional to the imbalance is the extra energy leaking out into space because the globe is now hotter than it was pre-industrial. If the warming-so-far is 1ºC, and ECS=3ºC for a doubling of CO2 (3.7Wm^-2), the climate forcing required to support that 1ºC warming would be 0.8Wm^-2. From this, using Cheng et al, we can infer a net global forcing of roughly 2Wm^-2.
Of course, the difficulty with directly assessing the value of net forcing is the negative component. The positive component is relatively exact with NOAA's AGGI standing at 3Wm^-2 (2015-18) suggesting a negative forcing of roughly 1Wm^-2.
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Eclectic at 19:28 PM on 7 February 2020Earth is heating at a rate equivalent to five atomic bombs per second
Eschwarzbach @2 ,
Please please please be careful to avoid typo errors in critical information ~ such as the scientific author's name. From your own moniker, I assumed the author might be German or Scandinavian but I eventually circled back to the common English name Johnson. And a great host of papers.
I did find a Johnson et al, 2016 ~ with planetary energy connection. But no Extract. Can you supply the paper's Extract for the readers here? Thanks.
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eschwarzbach at 17:42 PM on 7 February 2020Earth is heating at a rate equivalent to five atomic bombs per second
No doubt, the Earth is warming. But the number of Hiroshima bombs per second is uncertain. Most recent estimates of Earths energy imbalance is approx. 0.7 W/m2 (Hohnson et al. 2016), while the sum of all positive and negative forcings is in most papers, even Wikipedia, somewhere at 2 W/m2 or more. I have no idea, which figure is right or more reliable. Can anybody help me?
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Doug Bostrom at 14:53 PM on 7 February 2020Skeptical Science New Research for Week #5, 2020
Thanks for that link, Nigel.
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nigelj at 07:23 AM on 7 February 2020Earth is heating at a rate equivalent to five atomic bombs per second
You could always change it to xyz tons of gun powder exploding per second. This would be an impressively huge number.
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One Planet Only Forever at 14:34 PM on 6 February 2020Skeptical Science New Research for Week #5, 2020
Here is news coverage of a study report prepared for the UK Government.
The basic point is that a thoughtful evaluation has concluded that technological developments are unlikely to develop in time for the UK to meet its legal requirement to be Carbon-Neutral by 2050.
My understanding has been that a while ago global leadership in the 'supposedly most advanced nations' negligently passed the point in time where their aggressive encouragement of development of the required alternatives to fossil fuels had a chance of meeting the long established 'understood to be harmful but reasonably safe impact limit of 1.5 C'.
That irresponsible leadership has tried to declare that 2.0 C would be OK and that technological developments would 'be the solution'. They likely did it because the alternative was 'less popular' and certainly 'less profitable for the status quo'.
Reality Bites:
- !.5 C impacts remains understood to be harmful to the future of humanity, but a reasonably safe limit of impacts.
- Even if all of the 'supposedly most advanced nations' matched the UK commitment to be carbon-neutral by 2050, and all the developing nations committed to rapidly transition their development so that their carbon-neutral moments were shortly after 2050, and collectively the responsible advancement of prosperity of the poor effectively reduced birth rates, the total global impact could still exceed the 1.5 C impact limit (and potentially exceed the much more harmful 2.0 C level of impacts), especially if the higher impacting portion of the current generation was allowed to resist rapidly reducing their elective enjoyment consumption - continuing unnecessary CO2 impacting consumption that they enjoy, actions claimed to be 'so essential to the happier and easier living of the population that enjoys it that it is justified to be continued to the detriment of all future generations of humanity until a cheaper and easier less harmful way of getting that Joy is developed.
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One Planet Only Forever at 03:21 AM on 6 February 2020With the En-ROADS climate simulator, you can build your own solutions to global warming
ilfark2 @15,
The required correction of what has developed includes 'ending all burning of fossil fuels', not just transitioning the major fossil fuel uses to alternatives. That requires changing the behaviours of 'everyone'.
You still provide no basis for claiming that Carbon Taxes cannot be a helpful part of the actions taken to rapidly eliminate the production of excess CO2. As a disruptive challenge to dispute your claim, an immediate imposition of a $2000 per tonne carbon tax would cause incredibly significant and rapid disruptions of the developed status quo. It appears you are not discussing the effectiveness of an action. You are discussing the 'Popular support for what can be done'.
Backing down from the 'very disruptive' immediate $2000 per tonne tax, a high and steadily increasing carbon tax that is rebated to the middle income earning and poorer portion of the population is likely to be a very effective 'disruption' of the status quo that motivates changes of 'everyone's behaviour'. And all of the economic evaluations of the expected results of 'only using a carbon tax' prove that a Price on Carbon would be helpful.
What can be claimed is that a portion of humanity have incorrectly developed the belief that taxes are bad. And those people are also likely to believe that government motivation and restriction of activity is as bad or worse. Therefore, those opposed to the benefit of taxes would also likely oppose the idea that government intervention could be Good.
I personally believe that the competitive marketplace can be a very effective mechanism for encouraging the development of new ideas and sorting the effectiveness, incorporating regional differences. The following are harmfully missing from the developed systems:
- screening to effectively keep harmful unsustainable alternatives from being allowed to compete (they are cheaper and easier to do which gives them a competitive advantage), including screening of activity that has already developed popularity and profitability.
- effective efforts to ensure that misleading marketing fails to impress people. Expanded awareness and improved understanding applied to help develop sustainable improvements needs to govern all actions.
The corrective actions I see being required to be used along with helpful evaluation tools like En-ROADS include Government Restrictions on harmful unsustainable activities, including actions to terminate developed but unsustainable activity and actions to make misleading marketing undesirable and unsuccessful. And Government can implement generic incentives for helpful corrections and new sustainable developments. That governing to encourage helpful sustainable developments and limiting of what is allowed, including tax penalties as a method of correction, should be the limit of government in the marketplace but also be required actions of government in the marketplace.
Government should not be 'the mechanism for identifying the better choices among potential helpful new developments'. Government action towards specific alternatives should only be the expansion of awareness and understanding required to determine what to disqualify because it is a harmful unsustainable alternative.
Carbon taxes will undeniably be helpful regardless of what type of leadership is in power. Government efforts to direct economic changes could fail to be helpful, and with the wrong type of people in the positions of leadership it can be very harmful.
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purrmonster at 00:00 AM on 6 February 2020Why is the Keeling curve so curvy?
The maxim I learned is "Spring comes in May in Siberia" to explain the shapes of the wiggles. Because yes, the two hemispheres have opposite cycles, but the land masses in the northern hemisphere dominate, and the bulk of Siberia dominates the whole.
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Evan at 23:46 PM on 5 February 2020Why is the Keeling curve so curvy?
Very nice explanation of the Keeling Curve John and why our seemingly insignificant CO2 emissions matter.
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nigelj at 11:50 AM on 5 February 20202020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #5
Yes good on Mann. Its about time the scientific community was just a little bit more, whats the word, pointedly critical of the denialists, but in a humorous way.
What intrigued me is when he said "Im not relying on evidence". Bet he didn't mean for that to slip out. Bit of a freudian slip perhaps.
Someone should have asked him what he was relying on. Fairy dust perhaps.
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RedBaron at 06:39 AM on 5 February 2020Startups aim to pay farmers to bury carbon pollution in soil
Indigo's goal is to sequester all the legacy carbon in the atmosphere in a matter of a few decades. They have gone through serval fundraising rounds and last I heard the two biggest investors were the Dubai sovereign fund and the Alaska permanent fund, both are outlets for oil money.
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nigelj at 05:49 AM on 5 February 2020Startups aim to pay farmers to bury carbon pollution in soil
So Indigo agriculture subsidises farmers to use regnerative farming. Does anyone know who funds indigo agriculture?
20% of yearly emissions sequestered sounds good.
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ilfark2 at 05:18 AM on 5 February 2020With the En-ROADS climate simulator, you can build your own solutions to global warming
not sure where i got the 60% from,
but IEA, https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/energy-and-the-environment/where-greenhouse-gases-come-from.php,
notes 45% of US CO2 emission is from petroleum (which would include lots of trucks that should be trains, i imagine)
In the past all large transformations occurred from either massive government or popular (or both) intervention.
Taxes and subsidies sometimes played a role, but only a very minimal, marginal role. Best e.g. I know of is the centrally planned US WWII mobilization. Taxes and subsidies played a part, but they were not used in conjunction with a market.
If you plan to use taxes and subsidies in conjunction with markets, it will take 50 to 100 years.
A large part of this is capitalist systems become captured by first movers. Rail, coal, steel, autos, financials, media, web, software have all demonstrated this repeatedly. That's why we still have 19th century technology heat engines for transport.
At this point to get to 0 emissions in a timely fashion, we will have to have planned resource allocation.
Ideally we'd do it democratically. More likely it would be sort of representatively democratic or even more likely done the way whoever ends up in charge of it thinks it should go (like the US WWII mobilization).
In any case, taxes and subsidies will play a small, if any part.
Otherwise we'll bumble along as we are for a while until things get bad enough for somebody to block enough sun with SO2 to trigger snowball earth...
Moderator Response:[JH] Link activated.
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william5331 at 04:56 AM on 5 February 2020Startups aim to pay farmers to bury carbon pollution in soil
For a great take on regenerative agriculture, it would be hard to find a better book than Growing a Revolution by David R Montgomery. He also wrote a previous book, Dirt, in which he described the fate of civilizations that treated their soil like dirt and a sequel, The Hidding Half of Nature in which he describes the inner working of rich organic (carbon rich) soil. Rumors are that he is now working on a book on the food value of crops grown in rich organic soil vs crops grown in depleated soil.
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Doug Bostrom at 04:46 AM on 5 February 2020Startups aim to pay farmers to bury carbon pollution in soil
RedBaron, pardon me if I'm telling you what you already know but there are a few specialist crowdfunding sites to help with scientific experimentation.
https://experiment.com/ is one I've used (as a funder)
Possibly you might have better results with a crowd particularly interested in funding science.
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RedBaron at 04:10 AM on 5 February 2020Startups aim to pay farmers to bury carbon pollution in soil
Capacity is plenty to cover both mens estimates and some. The kicker is and always was rate.
5-20 tonnes CO2e /ha/yr has been repeated multiple times around the world in the field by land managers.
Dr David Johnsons results are higher, but these are research plot numbers, not results from commercial land managers/farmers/ranchers attempting to use Dr Johnson's methods. I only know of one or two examples of anyone obtaining results comparable, so this could be an outlier, or it could be yet another big breakthough comparable to the LCP.
I don't doubt what Dr Johnson has done is possible, but how easily it is repeatable is an unknown for me right now. I will however attempt to repeat his numbers myself in my own research plots. That is if I can manage to round up enough money for a series of 16S and 18S analyses and some equipment. My attempts to raise money for my research has not gone particularly well so far. I know I don't have the funds for the more expensive detailed tests. My attempt to gain funding from the Indigo challenge was also unsuccessful, although I certainly applied.
Considering how he claims he got those results, I am a bit surprised though. Till now I never thought I'd see numbers like that on that side of the system. Although it may be that somehow while he may think this is saprophytic carbon being sequestered it is in the end really mostly mycorrhizal carbon from the LCP that has somehow trapped additional decaying organic material from the saprophytic organisms. That's just a hypothesis of mine though. I obviously have not tested it yet. I am basing it on this: Glomalin, the Unsung Hero of Carbon Storage
"Glomalin is a sticky protein produced by root-dwelling fungi and sloughed into soil as roots grow. By gluing soil particles and organic matter together, it stabilizes soil and keeps carbon from escaping into the atmosphere. In an earlier study, Wright found that glomalin serves as a corrective to global warming because it increases with carbon dioxide levels."
Notice that while glomalin itself is a carbon compound, it actually binds other organic compounds and traps them, preventing their oxidation and release back as CO2. It is possible that is what Dr Johnson is managing to optimize, since compost is clearly the saprophytic side (Labile fraction of soil carbon) and usually decays back to CO2 almost entirely. That leaves an interesting level of complexity to investigate. I have been following Dr Johnsons results for a while now.
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One Planet Only Forever at 03:33 AM on 5 February 20202020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #5
The public reaction seen in the live TV broadcast that Michael Sweet's comment @3 provided a link to is indeed encouraging.
However, the reasons people vote the way they do is what needs to change, not just the expression of public moments of ridicule.
Many people who understand that the developed attitudes and actions of most of the more fortunate humans are causing significant unacceptable climate change to occur will continue to vote for candidates and parties they know do not share that understanding and the need for correction. They will vote for candidates and parties that have a proven a history of resisting expanded awareness, resisting improving understanding, resisting applying learning to help develop sustainable improvements for humanity, resisting correction.
Some people will understand they should dislike a Leader, or leadership candidate, who proves they lack the ability to responsibly perform the duties of their elected office like the "booed at Senator". But they will still vote for that type of individual or party "for other reasons". And, tragically, what many of those types of voters will fail to realize is that the "other reasons" they have for voting for that type of candidate or party are also resistance to expanded awareness, improved understanding and correction of unjustified developed beliefs and related harmful unsustainable actions.
The pursuit of Sustainable Development is a response to the harmful developments that have been occurring. And many of the wealthy and powerful have responded to the expanded awareness and improved understanding of the corrections of what has developed in order to achieve Sustainable Development by gathering up the diversity of "resistance to Sustainable Development Corrections" into United Political Groups as a way to divisively polarize societies in order to prolong the winning by a Collective Diversity of Resistance to Sustainable Development Correction. They, like the Senator, demand the freedom to believe whatever they want as the justification for resisting the correction of something they have developed a liking for. They like the freedom to continue to do what they like. They dislike "Any External Governing/Limiting of their behaviour, and any related corrections of beliefs".
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Nick Palmer at 02:52 AM on 5 February 2020Startups aim to pay farmers to bury carbon pollution in soil
Lal's calculations as to how much C an be sequestered are regarded as very much at the low end of the spread of predictions. The results of Dr David Johnson of NMU suggest a surprisingly larger capacity is available. Red Baron?
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Paul_Belanger at 02:07 AM on 5 February 2020Startups aim to pay farmers to bury carbon pollution in soil
This is all very good - soil regeneration is a win-win for us all. However it can be an even bigger win if you include biochar into the mix and burial into the soil - unlike compost it stays in the soil for 100s of years: ON BIOCHAR - A MUST READ – Burn; using fire to cool the Earth by Albert Bate and Kathleen Draper. Encourage your libraries and local bookstores to buy it.
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Morchea at 01:19 AM on 5 February 2020Too late to stop Climate Change?
Hi,
I created a poll to get a feeling of what people are doing to reverse Climate Change in different parts of the world:
Please participate ! Thanks.
Moderator Response:[DB] Shortened and activated URL
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michael sweet at 23:21 PM on 4 February 20202020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #5
On a live TV broadcast in Australia a Senator is booed by the audience when he says he questions in climate change is "human caused" He says "my mind is open" based on "I'm not relying on evidence".
Michael Man responds "you should keep open mind but not so open your brain falls out" (2:00, the very end).
Three cheers for Michael Mann!!! On live TV!!
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Philippe Chantreau at 09:14 AM on 4 February 2020Models are unreliable
Worth reading about the subject: latest update at Real Climate. CMIP 3 seems to be doing quite good.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2020/01/update-day-2020/
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scaddenp at 11:56 AM on 3 February 2020CO2 is just a trace gas
Bruce 47. One issue is that the "greenhouse" effect is inapprobiately named. It doesnt work like a greenhouse which makes "simple" experiments interesting depending on you what are trying to measure. In a lab, you can measure the absorption of sunlight by increasing the CO2 concentration. However, you would quickly conclude as Angstrom did, that you can saturate the effect. However, in the real structure of the atmosphere, temperature and pressure varies with height and as a result you cannot saturate the effect. An experiment to demonstrate this would somewhat large...
However, the change in radiation as CO2 increases can be measured though it is not a simple design. See here for details. More indirect measures of the change have been done by both measuring change at surface (eg Evans 2006) or to outgoing radiation from space (eg Harries 2001).
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michael sweet at 09:14 AM on 3 February 2020Milankovitch Cycles
MAP,
In general, if you think of a question scientists have answered it.
If not for humans the descent into the next glacial period would have started several thousand years ago. The hockey stick shows declining temperature until 1850. The descent would have been faster but human land use slowed it down.
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Map at 08:30 AM on 3 February 2020Milankovitch Cycles
Moderator JH I would like to point out again comment @49 was a duplicate that can be deleted as well as this comment. A user here pointed me to an interesting website that answers most of my questions which is what I was hoping for. I will not be asking more here
Moderator Response:[JH] At the end of the day, we all do what we consider to be in our own self interest.
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Map at 08:01 AM on 3 February 2020CO2 lags temperature
Philippe chantreau thank you, that link will answer many of the questions that this discussion would have led me to ask.
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Philippe Chantreau at 07:34 AM on 3 February 2020CO2 lags temperature
Map,
The length of the cycle is 100,000. We reached the interglacial stage about 12,000 years ago (consider it the end of the cycle, or beginning, I'm not sure it matters), and what is known as the Holocene climatic optimum is centered around 7-8,000 years ago, depending on proxies.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holocene_Temperature_Variations.png
Plenty of references on that page for data and publications.
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Map at 07:08 AM on 3 February 2020Milankovitch Cycles
Moderator JH, I would like to ask, if the website is named skeptical science and most people in the scientific community agree with global warming, then why are all of the skeptics expected to formulate their questions like a scientist? Also want to point out post @47 somehow duplicated into @49
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To learn more about why the name Skeptical Science was chosen, click on the "About" button in the blue bar on the top of each page.
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Map at 07:04 AM on 3 February 2020Milankovitch Cycles
Scaddenp thank you, that graph show exactly what I was looking for. Interesting that it shows the opposite of what I was comprehending before with the albedo on land mass.
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Map at 06:58 AM on 3 February 2020Milankovitch Cycles
Michael sweet that quote that you copied from a different page was at someone who was being very judgemental in his responses which is what lead me to that conclusion, which is why I thanked you for your intellectual response before I abandoned my communication with him.
But to continue on your response to my question (which I appreciate). Has land use changes like deforestation for farm ground been compared with the current amplification of global warming to see how big of an affect it is along side with co2?
Moderator Response:[DB] Deforestation is about 11% of the overall problem. The human burning of fossil fuels is pretty much the rest.
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Map at 06:58 AM on 3 February 2020CO2 lags temperature
Michael sweet this is why jumping multiple pages for a flowing conversation causes issues. I did respond to your graph and then in this comment section I had it pointed out when the timing for ice ages changed from 41000 years to 100000 years, which reinforces your post and made it more revalant to my discussion again but was on a different page. I do appreciate the answers you are giving me and am not trying to be rude.
Looking at your graph yet again, I also see that there does appear to be a very slight cooling trend over the last ~8000 years, and before that a fairly steady temperature rise over about a 4k year period. This is what lead me to ask why the cooling trend had occurred when that chart appears to be showing temperature rise to be expected, and why it is alarming for the temperature rise to resume when it would be expected for the trend to continue until the buildup of the next iceage ~80000 years from now?
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Bruce 47 at 06:34 AM on 3 February 2020CO2 is just a trace gas
I am new to this site and trying to learn. Plese forgive me for taking such an elementary tack and guide me in the right direction if you can.
Has anyone seen the results of a simple green house experiment?
Problem: What is the temperatrure affect of Sunlight on volumes of air with different concentrations of CO2?
Thank you,
Bruce
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scaddenp at 06:25 AM on 3 February 2020Milankovitch Cycles
The change in albedo from human constructions etc. is is under "Land use" in the breakdown forcings.
This is discussed (with references to the source data) in Chapter 8, section 8.3.5. If you havent already read the the IPCC report, then you should so before leaping in here.
Moderator Response:[JH] For future reference, if Map posts comments containing undocumented assertions, please do not respond to them. They will be summarily deleted.]
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Map at 06:12 AM on 3 February 2020CO2 lags temperature
Michael sweet this is why jumping multiple pages for a flowing conversation causes issues. I did respond to your graph and then in this comment section I had it pointed out when the timing for ice ages changed from 41000 years to 100000 years, which reinforces your post and made it more revalant to my discussion again but was on a different page. I do appreciate the answers you are giving me and am not trying to be rude.
Looking at your graph yet again, I also see that there does appear to be a very slight cooling trend over the last ~8000 years, and before that a fairly steady temperature rise over about a 4k year period. This is what lead me to ask why the cooling trend had occurred when that chart appears to be showing temperature rise to be expected, and why it is alarming for the temperature rise to resume when it would be expected for the trend to continue until the buildup of the next iceage ~80000 years from now?
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Map at 05:57 AM on 3 February 2020Milankovitch Cycles
Michael sweet that quote that you copied from a different page was at someone who was being very judgemental in his responses which is what lead me to that conclusion, which is why I thanked you for your intellectual response before I abandoned my communication with him.
But to continue on your response to my question (which I appreciate). Has land use changes like deforestation for farm ground been compared with the current amplification of global warming to see how big of an affect it is along side with co2?
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michael sweet at 05:22 AM on 3 February 2020CO2 lags temperature
Map,
The graph I provided to you here clearly shows a 100,000 year cycle. Why do you have so many questions about something you have already been provided the data for? Do you ignore everyone elses posts or are you incapable of reading a simple graph?
When you claim to be really smart and then do not read the posts made to you it makes everyone else hostile to you.
Moderator Response:[JH] For future reference, if Map posts comments containing undocumented assertions, please do not respond to them. They will be summarily deleted.]
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michael sweet at 05:18 AM on 3 February 2020Milankovitch Cycles
Map,
Human constructions like roads and buildings affect the temperature in cities a fair amount. That is called the urban heat island effect. Because cities are relatively small the effect on the Earth's average temperature is small.
To expand your question, land use changes like converting forrest into farmland also affect albeido. Because farms are so large this does have a significant effect on global temperature.
When you make statements like:
" I have decided to abandon the discussion and not educate myself in this area as the "smart people" in the room haven't the ability to portray their thoughts to someone smarter than themselves that just isn't studied in the area he is questioning." my emphasis
You look like you only want to insult people. If you are not informed on the subject we are discussing is is improper to say you are the smartest person in the room.
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Map at 05:15 AM on 3 February 2020CO2 lags temperature
Phillips chantreau I should add, the comment in my question about a cooling trend was taken directly from a response from eclectic on a different article on this site about us temperature in 1934 before that conversation was forced to roll over into this article.
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Map at 05:09 AM on 3 February 2020CO2 lags temperature
Phillips chantreau you are correct, I just found another link on this site that states that somehow the 41000 year of milankovitch's theory changed around 800000 years ago and shifted the iceage timing to be around 100000 years now instead. I apologise for my vagueness in the "I read somewhere" but unfortunately that is due to the time that lapses between when I read articles and the number of articles I read in a night, I have good enough memory to quote exact phrases that I have read over the last year but unfortunately cannot swear to exactly which page I have received them from. However, the question that was avoided that kind of upset me was this.
If instead you choose to lean on the theory that iceages occur every 100k years, then was the last one truly 20k years ago? If it was then, how were we in a slight cooling trend leading into the 1900s when the globe should be warming for the next 80000 years building into that next ice age?
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One Planet Only Forever at 04:14 AM on 3 February 2020Glaciers are growing
The recent article Antarctica melting: Climate change and the journey to the 'doomsday glacier' by Justin Rowlatt, BBC News, January 28, 2020, complements and supplements the items linked to by John Hartz @47.
A relevant supplement provided in the article is the presentation showing that the elevation of a substantial portion of the ‘grounding surface’ under Antarctica’s ice, and almost all of the ‘grounding surface’ at the base of the Thwaites Glacier, is below sea level.
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Map at 03:52 AM on 3 February 2020Milankovitch Cycles
Ok a quick question. I am seeing throughout the comments that people are correlating milankovitch's theory with albedo and ocean current to "explain" how solar insolation and ocean co2 can add to the temperature effects of the milankovitch theory. The question that I have is; Is there a way that the extra structures that man have put on the land mass in the northern hemisphere and the factor that we move so much snow to expose the ground to make travel easier possibly changing the albedo effect on solar insolation and combining with our increased co2 output to amplify our current global warming?
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Philippe Chantreau at 03:44 AM on 3 February 2020CO2 lags temperature
I believe that I had read Map's initial comment correctly and that he is indeed referring to what some call the Mid-Pleistocene transition. This is an area of active research and, although his posts are poorly formulated, I do not see that map deserves scorn for enquiring about it.
The recent regime of 100,000 years interglacial was preceded in the paleo record by a longer period where the 41,000 years cycle dominated. Wikipedia has a good explanation and plenty of links to scientific literature, including some recent ones.
Citing the wiki page:
"There is strong evidence that the Milankovitch cycles affect the occurrence of glacial and interglacial periods within an ice age. The present ice age is the most studied and best understood, particularly the last 400,000 years, since this is the period covered by ice cores that record atmospheric composition and proxies for temperature and ice volume. Within this period, the match of glacial/interglacial frequencies to the Milanković orbital forcing periods is so close that orbital forcing is generally accepted (emphasis mine). The combined effects of the changing distance to the Sun, the precession of the Earth's axis, and the changing tilt of the Earth's axis redistribute the sunlight received by the Earth. Of particular importance are changes in the tilt of the Earth's axis, which affect the intensity of seasons. For example, the amount of solar influx in July at 65 degrees north latitude varies by as much as 22% (from 450 W/m² to 550 W/m²). It is widely believed that ice sheets advance when summers become too cool to melt all of the accumulated snowfall from the previous winter. Some believe that the strength of the orbital forcing is too small to trigger glaciations, but feedback mechanisms like CO2 may explain this mismatch."
Further down: "During the period 3.0–0.8 million years ago, the dominant pattern of glaciation corresponded to the 41,000-year period of changes in Earth's obliquity (tilt of the axis). The reasons for dominance of one frequency versus another are poorly understood and an active area of current research, but the answer probably relates to some form of resonance in the Earth's climate system. Recent work suggests that the 100K year cycle dominates due to increased southern-pole sea-ice increasing total solar reflectivity."
Worth noting:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016GL071307
There are plenty of other interesting references in the Wiki.
Map,
To have a productive exchange here, you can not be vague with statements like "I have read somewhere" and such. These are used all the times by people who argue in bad faith and trigger the corresponding response from other posters, for which you can not blame those who respond. Scientific references are a must. Specific inquiries and precise questions are helpful.
It should be noted that the regime in the paleo record has now been completely replaced and that we are in entirely new conditions because of the massive injection of CO2 in the atmosphere from the past 100 years.
Moderator Response:[JH] For future reference, if Map posts comments containing undocumented assertions, please do not respond to them. They will be summarily deleted.]
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NIOSNEWS at 03:05 AM on 3 February 2020Too late to stop Climate Change?
Moderator Response:[TD] Please provide context for links you supply. Also put those comments in appropriate threads. The link you gave here is not on topic for this thread. See the list of myths in the left margin, or use the Search field at the top left of the page.
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Map at 02:58 AM on 3 February 20201934 - hottest year on record
Michael sweet and ma Rodger, thank you for addressing my questions rather than attacking my wording. As I have found that I cannot continue conversations on this website without moving from topic to topic and Everytime my line of questions change slightly someone chooses to attack my wording just because I am trying to view the pieces to address the whole picture I have decided to abandon the discussion and not educate myself in this area as the "smart people" in the room haven't the ability to portray their thoughts to someone smarter than themselves that just isn't studied in the area he is questioning.
Moderator Response:[JH] Argumentative nonsense stuck though.
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Map at 02:51 AM on 3 February 2020CO2 lags temperature
Eclectic, sorry I confused you with "denialist research" when I misrepeated your phrase of "denialist websites". I came here to educate myself and once again you showed that you are incapable of answering the question part of my responses and only wish to divulge in your emotional responses. I was attempting to save time which I don't have on dredging through links of myths and having my particular questions answered but I apparently failed to find someone that can do more than emotionally regurgitate info. I will therefore choose to end this discussion and not care about global warming and just follow exxon's propaganda to bamboozle people beings you're unable to answer simple questions.
Moderator Response:[JH] Argumentative sloganeering struck through.
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John Hartz at 02:10 AM on 3 February 2020Glaciers are growing
Recommended supplemental reading:
Scientists have found warm water beneath Antarctica's "doomsday glacier," a nickname used because it is one of Antarctica's fastest melting glaciers. While researchers have observed the recession of the Thwaites Glacier for a decade, this marks the first time they detected the presence of warm water – found at a "vital point" beneath the glacier.
A news release on the findings called it an alarming discovery.
"The fact that such warm water was just now recorded by our team along a section of Thwaites grounding zone where we have known the glacier is melting suggests that it may be undergoing an unstoppable retreat that has huge implications for global sea-level rise," David Holland, director of New York University's Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and NYU Abu Dhabi's Center for Global Sea Level Change, which conducted the research, said in the news release.
Scientists alarmed to discover warm water at "vital point" beneath Antarctica's "doomsday glacier" by Sophie Lewis, CBS News, Feb 1, 2020
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