Earth' Recent CLimate Spiral 2.0

[Leonardo17]

[Anomalocaris]

There are temperature cycles of 120,000 years, but it is not nearly extreme enough to cause there to be rain forest in the Antarctica during its upswings.   Antarctica has been continuously covered by continent spanning ice sheet for 35 million years and hadn’t seen rain forests since age of dinosaurs.   The cumulative effect of 70 million years long cooling trend of the earth since the end of Cretaceous is too great for any known current short term climate cycles, or acute disturbances, including what we are causing through our GHG emission,  to overcome.     Even with the full reasonably anticipated effects of anthropogenic climate chamge over the next centuries, the cumulative effect of long term cooling is still dominant and the earth would still remain substantially cooler than the historic average it has experienced over the last 550 million years.

It is just that the acute climate disturbance we cause would make earth hotter than we’ve experienced since Homo sapiens left Africa, and far hotter than our infrastructure, demographic distribution, accustomed agriculture style, have been adapted to function under, and we will pay a much greater price to readapt to the full effects of the Unimpeded disturbance than to rein in the disturbance.

[Leonardo17]

[Anomalocaris]

[Leonardo17]

[Anomalocaris]

they are unlikely to get on board because of the lack of confidence in reciprocity in the new geopolitical environment that emerged during and in the wake of COVID pandemic

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

‘The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive’ - Frank Herbert

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

[LinuxGal]

[Anomalocaris]

If the atmosphere held enough water such that raining it all out will drown the tallest mountain, that means the atmospheric pressure before the water rained out will have to account for the weight of all that water. Ie the atmospheric pressure when Noah was little must have been 8 time the atmosphere pressure on the surface of Venus