Are you then insisting that there is no global warming even though there has been a vast reduction in summer (residual) polar sea ice over the last 30% years? If not Global Warming, then What is melting the sea ice to a greater extent than any time since the Medieval Warming Period?
What your "Ice Age Now" website indicates to me is that the warming that has occured over the last 30 years has likely interrupted the Thermohaline Circulation Currents in the North Atlantic leading to a shifting of Ocean Currents that pulls the Warm Gulfstreem waters away from the northern continents and allows for the glaciation process to begin. But I hope this is incorrect.
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From your CO2 Science link
“Elevated CO2: How Sweet it is ... for Sugarcane!: (Uploaded 12 January 2009)
We all learned back in grade school that CO2 is good for vegetation, and that plants need it to grow and construct their tissues. Might not the extra CO2 projected to be in the air by the end of the century therefore actually be beneficial for the planet's vegetation?”
The short answer is likely…yes. Increased CO2 levels would be good for some plant life.
However, Millions of years ago, when the CO2 levels were 2000+ppm and even as high as 6-7000ppm the flora was vastly different. Plants had very large broad leaves so as to be able to process more CO2 and the fauna was also significantly larger due in part to the enhanced vegetation. But Man was nowhere to be found. We could not in face have survived then as the air would have been toxic to us. We would, in fact, have difficulty breathing if you raised the CO2 levels to anything above 600ppm. We would be forced into needing a breathing apparatus just to go outside and also needing sealed internal environs so as to avoid CO2 entering our living spaces.
So while elevated CO2 levels might be good for some plants, it has a net negative impact on humans.
And this from “What’s up with that” web link
“NASA’s Dr. James Hansen once again goes over the top. See his most recent article in the UK Guardian. Some excerpts:
“The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.”
And this:
Clearly, if we burn all fossil fuels, we will destroy the planet we know. Carbon dioxide would increase to 500 ppm or more.
Only one problem there Jimbo, CO2 has been a lot higher in the past. Like 10 times higher.”
Only one problem there too, Man cannot survive in an environment where CO2 ppm levels are “10 times greater than that.”
And this
”Redoing Steig et al, with simple data regrouping, gives half the warming result in Antarctica
Gee half the warming but still ALL the sea ice melt. Hmmmm
And this
”‘Apocalyptic climate predictions’ mislead the public, say experts’
Experts at Britain’s top climate research centre have launched a blistering attack on scientific colleagues and journalists who exaggerate the effects of global warming. The Met Office Hadley Centre, one of the most prestigious research facilities in the world, says recent “apocalyptic predictions” about Arctic ice melt and soaring temperatures are as bad as claims that global warming does not exist. Now I happen to agree with
this statement because I think that global warming (and you would have to be crazy to deny its existence) won’t mean a catastrophic melt down in northern ice fields/sheets/etc.but rather the return to another Little Ice Age or possible Major Ice Age.
