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Quote by: BobbyO Glaciers have been melting for 50,000 years as overall global temperatures have been increasing the same. |
Duhhh! Y'think? Gee, Bobby, why don't you inform the world's scientific community of this revelation and I'm sure they'll all slap their forheads and declare,
"Gosh, why didn't WE think of that?"
Yep, with the end of the last Ice Age 10 to 8,000 years ago, by golly, a lot of glaciers melted. No doubt about it. But now, 8,000 years later, we SHOULD be in a COOLING trend, leading back over the next 25,000 years or so to the next Ice Age. But we're not...we're suddenly warming, and in geological terms, 200 years is VERY sudden.
And the only explanation -- natural cycles, solar cycles, sun spots, changes in magnetic fields, orbital shifts, God sneezing -- the ONLY explanation that accurately predicts what's currently happening is climate forcing due to human created greenhouse gases.
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Quote by: BobbyO I'm still trying to understand how increased hurricane activity and decreased hurricane activity are both proofs of global warming. |
Who said anything about increased AND decreased hurricanes. Global Warming means warmer ocean surface temperatures, and since ocean heat is the engine that drives tropical storms - both in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans -- global warming predicts stronger storms.
Number Of Tropical Storms In Recent Past Increasing
Yes, 2007 was very light in tropical storm activity in the northern hemisphere. Whatever the reasons, I don't much care. They'll be back.
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