"DSK" wrote in message
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Gilligan wrote:
Consensus does not make fact.

Agreed.

Phlogiston theory was a consensus.

I'm not sure about that, but at one time it was definitely a consensus
that the Earth was flat. Was the Earth really flat back then, and only
assumed oblate speroid-hood when we believed it to be so?

Check out:

Anthropomorphic physics. Supposedly a dead science but it is making a
comeback in the quantum world.






I say that human activity will not warm the planet.

Where does the heat go from combusting all that fossil fuel?

We are introducing a HECK of a lot of BTUs into the Earth's atmosphere &
oceans (accounts put the total over a hundred quadrillion per year). Are
you saying that the 1st Law of Thermodynamics does not apply?

The heat goes into chemical bonds (making new chemicals in the environment),
phase changes (creating water vapor for instance), mechanical work (such as
winds, oceans currents). Big ass hurricanes are one way to disappate the
heat energy, melting ice takes a lot of heat also. The heat doesn't
necessarily have to warm the globe. If a 0.05% change in the sun's output
does not warm the globe, and the molten core of the earth does not warm the
globe, then how are those measly human BTU's going to warm the globe? If
the earth warmed, more energy would radiate into space (Boltzman's law).

Cause and effect: why did the warming start before these Quadrillions of BTU
were pumped into the atmosphere?





Global warming is at best a transient phenomena.

What would it be at worst?

A good reason to bong up!



DSK