The New Climate Reality

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  1. Hoosier8

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    When they discovered most people have both God complexes and are so easily lead and controlled by fear, suddenly the world is ending every 10 years for decades.
     
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    Yes. As we understand the little ice age and what should follow it.
     
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    You're watching too much late night tv.
     
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    Ok. Might I suggest you look up the meaning of the idiom "not unprecedented" that you used? You don't have to respond. We're not here to beat on dead horses.
     
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    Yes, warming.
     
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    LOL, maybe you were born yesterday.
     
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    Unilaterally of course.
     
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    We've seen prolonged drought before.
     
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    Apples and oranges. This natural cyclical event is not unprecedented, and has (and had) nothing to do with human activity.
     
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    But not this much. You know what causes ice ages I know you do.
     
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    I wish. 62 years ago
     
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    Every bit helps
     
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    Then it has nothing to do with Climate Change. Thanks for clarifying. I didn't realize you were going off-topic.
     
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    Exploding islands in the Med?
     
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    It's merely the topic of the thread.
     
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    How would you know. They can’t identify how much is natural.
     
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    LOL.
     
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    Hmm yes but not as prolonged or as frequent

    It is called climate change for a reason
     
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    Lols! Although major volcanic eruptions like Krakatoa can cause temporary warming there are other factors involved
     
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    What drives this “natural cycle”?
     
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    But we can. We know ice ages are caused by either catastrophic events of as part of the Milankovitch cycles. We are able to map both of these.
    We can also watch the suns activity and measure the amount of sunlight hitting the Earth.
    The rest is purely physics. Heat in heat out.
    What we cannot measure accurately as yet is the effects the excess heat are having on the planet.
     
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    Milankovitch cycles.
     
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    You know that I know that but we have to get the denialists to acknowledge that SOMETHING drives climate change - always
     
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    Oh yes, I see.
    Apologies for my spoiler.
     
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