Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: sci.physics,talk.politics.guns,alt.checkmate Subject: Re: Antarctica is melting faster than we knew Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 17:50:55 -0700 Organization: n/a Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 00:50:55 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="a614070d132da52ee5cd5f92e3c6c2a7"; logging-data="18969"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/SoDPQSqE4mKj12XSDWsA2spo2Xn0L7fU=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:I1EwcGcEvMx12AuQhpkackhLJF8= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:692846 talk.politics.guns:1099782 alt.checkmate:181835 On 7/6/2018 4:13 PM, Checkmate wrote: > Warning! Always wear ANSI approved safety goggles when reading posts by > Checkmate! In article , > invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid says... > > >> >> On 7/6/2018 3:39 PM, mixed nuts wrote: >>> On 7/6/2018 5:55 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>>> On 7/4/2018 2:07 AM, kensi wrote: >>>>> Climate scientist Stephen Rintoul says we have to act soon if we want >>>>> to protect the southernmost continent: >>>>> >>>>> https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/antarctica-melting-faster-we-knew-here-s-what-it-will-ncna884636 >>>>> >>>> Antarctica was completely melted before, in the history of Earth wrt >>>> cycles of cooling and warming periods. I think it had lush forests, >>>> filled with all sorts of exotic life forms. >>> >>> It used to be closer to the equator, and non-glaciated, back about 550 >>> million years ago, before trees and vertebrates evolved. >>> >> >> Afaict, there were periods in the Earths history where virtually no ice >> sheets existed. Cycles where the tropical temperatures extended up into >> the poles. > > Climate change has gone from one extreme to the other throughout Earth's > history. That's why it's ludicrous to be overly concerned about a degree > or two, whether it's actually provably man-made or not, and it's even > more ludicrous to think we can "reverse" it. > Yeah... Imvho, the main point is that there really is no practical way we can reverse the current cycle: Agreed. Reducing pollution is fine, however, it will not be able to stop nature from doing its natural thing, so to speak.