We're going to base climate theory on Antarctic record keeping that goes all the way back to 1979? Are you serious? The same people who point out that all that missing ice won't reflect sunlight back out into space, allowing the Earth to warm more have climate models that assume cloud free conditions. Show me one photo of the Earth without clouds. There are no such things. Cloudiness varies from 5% to 95% and the rays of the sun are reflected from the tops of the clouds instead of a couple hundred feet off the surface of the ocean. Which would be more effective in cooling the Earth: A Greenland-size ice sheet of 375,000 square miles or 5% to 95% cloud cover? (Hint: Greenland@375,000 sq miles ÷ Earth@=196,900,000 = 0.019% for Greenland. If 0.019% at sea level is important, how important is 5% (a multiple of 263 times) at 2,000 to 50,000 feet above sea level?
2022 Nobel Prize in Physics ,"for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science", co-winner Professor John F. Clauser says climate change is a scientific hoax. He says the climate models assume clouds at zero, that is ALL the climate models, so they are ALL deficient in just plain science. Nothing I could add is necessary or even useful. I guess the term, "Climate change is settled science" means different things to different people. The science IS settled, so to speak; climate change is entirely bullshit. Mea culpa, anyone?
The Gaia Theory includes the pivotal effects of clouds forming as the sun heats surface waters to some point; those clouds reduce the sun's energy reaching the surface below the clouds, cooling the surface. The difference between Earth and Mars is water. No water, -no media to change solar radiation into heat-reflecting clouds. Clouds exist within a small range on Earth and deliver rain to places with little water. No water, -no weather. No weather, only one climate can exist; that being day or night.
Carbon is not a pollutant. Any "extra" carbon is stored as living tissue or biomass in or on the soil. People who speak of "tons of carbon in the atmosphere, should speak of cubic miles of coal in the ground and explain to us whence & whither. All the coal & oil in the ground are the products of plants, much of which cycled through the air as dinosaur farts and wildfires. Mother Nature recycles carbon via lightning strike fires that she, "Let burn". (Imagine the explosive power of lightning striking a dinosaur fart!) Volcanoes contribute 95% of existent pollutant gases. Mankind can screw up the surface of Earth, but the climate is controlled by the Sun and sunspot cycles. And, clouds. We have been in a cooling period for about 30 years, which is why "Climate warming" was changed to climate change, in hopes of climate models actually correlating with the climate well enough to predict the past. Which they do not. A scientific model system that can't be correlated backwards can't predict the future either. There are three kinds of people: those who are ignorant; those who use ignorant people as true believers of climate change and a constituency to impose their will upon humanity; and the rest of us who know baloney when we see it.
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