muso wrote on Nov 6^th, 2009 at 8:54am:


Remarkable? I can see a couple of periods of rising temperatures on your version that look remarkably similar to the recent warming!

I see that I didn't answer your question. The Earth's Ecosystems can adapt quite well, but not well enough to cope with 7 extra Gigatonnes of carbon emissions per year. Around the year 2000, it was estimated that dropping to 2 Gigatonnes per annum would result in the  atmospheric concentration of CO2 stabilising. I don't know offhand what that figure would be now.

These people are under continual disquietudes, never enjoying a minutes
peace of mind; and their disturbances proceed from causes which very
little affect the rest of mortals.  Their apprehensions arise from
several changes they dread in the celestial bodies: for instance, that
the earth, by the continual approaches of the sun towards it, must, in
course of time, be absorbed, or swallowed up; that the face of the sun,
will, by degrees, be encrusted with its own effluvia, and give no more
light to the world; that the earth very narrowly escaped a brush from the
tail of the last comet, which would have infallibly reduced it to ashes;
and that the next, which they have calculated for one-and-thirty years
hence, will probably destroy us.  For if, in its perihelion, it should
approach within a certain degree of the sun (as by their calculations
they have reason to dread) it will receive a degree of heat ten thousand
times more intense than that of red hot glowing iron, and in its absence
from the sun, carry a blazing tail ten hundred thousand and fourteen
miles long, through which, if the earth should pass at the distance of
one hundred thousand miles from the nucleus, or main body of the comet,
it must in its passage be set on fire, and reduced to ashes: that the
sun, daily spending its rays without any nutriment to supply them, will
at last be wholly consumed and annihilated; which must be attended with
the destruction of this earth, and of all the planets that receive their
light from it.

They are so perpetually alarmed with the apprehensions of these, and the
like impending dangers, that they can neither sleep quietly in their
beds, nor have any relish for the common pleasures and amusements of
life.  When they meet an acquaintance in the morning, the first question
is about the sun's health, how he looked at his setting and rising, and
what hopes they have to avoid the stroke of the approaching comet.  This
conversation they are apt to run into with the same temper that boys
discover in delighting to hear terrible stories of spirits and
hobgoblins, which they greedily listen to, and dare not go to bed for
fear.

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift is not on Facebook.  Nor Twitter.

Dead for 250 years, yet he is pertinent. Fancy that!! - a longer view.







Muso, in all seriousness, what bit of climate doom, presented 50 or a 100 years ago, does still hold today? Indeed, what bit of climate science of 1959 or 1909 or 1859 does still hold today?

Dear Sir Muso

Where is the hard evidence tying man to the current level of CO2 levels?

JM,

Let's keep this on topic. I would love it if somebody would actually try to follow the argument without being blinded by a personal agenda.

I won't delete any more of your posts if you promise not to make any more personal attacks.