Flying Tadpole wrote:
Peter wrote:
Flying Tadpole wrote:

Walt, I have no problem with climate changing. Of course it's changing.
It's being changing erratically all through the Pleistocene and now!

Indeed, Adelaide had a major climate change when the bureau of
meteorology observatory was shifted! The rainfall changed and the mean
temperatures all changed too! And that was one of the world's
longest-running meteorological observatories at the time. One wonders
how many others have manifested such a locational/climatic change!

Simply, there is not a long enough timeline with sufficient detailed
data though to decide whether we are indeed giving (your analogy) that
ball a shove. Staying with your analogy, I would suggest that the ball
would descend due to gravity, even if we shoved it in the opposite
direction. And that is what I suspect is happening: the anthropogenic
component is not the "trigger" "last straw" or any of the other
fear-laden labels.

And, I have to say, working in sandridge deserts that have changed their
orientation two or three times in the past 25,000 years in cold, arid
episodes (and possibly as recent as 5000 years), I'd much prefer we go
warmer than colder.

Read somewhere that the (calculated) mass balance of Antarctica is
positive.

PDW


Heh heh

http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1771124

Quick! get more greenhouse gases up there before we all turn into a cold
arid desert and the glaciers eat Michigan!

The glaciers can have Michigan....