Global warming

[David Horn]

(12-08-2016, 05:42 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I just visited Realclimate for the first time in a while.  Do you think the blue folks here are depressed by Trump's victory?  They are treating it like the end of the world.  That's a slight exaggeration.  Not much of one.  There wasn't much time to act, and they fear we are going to move backwards.

They have another interesting article on the broad warming trend.  In the propaganda wars, the people are often fed propaganda that avoids mention of the solar cycles.  Thus, through most of the ought decade, when the sun was in a cold cycle, and the temperatures were drifting lower, there were proclamations that global warming had ended, that there was no need to act.  I tried to push "just wait for the next peak solar" on the eleven year cycle, but was pretty much ignored...  until the next peak solar arrived and the records started being set again.

The Realclimate article notes, however, that the peak solar is passed and the records just keep on coming.  The warming trend seems to be overwhelming the solar cycle this time around, which is scary.  Realclimate doesn't attribute cause, but my guess is that the Arctic ice is melting fast enough that the cooling influence of this phase of the solar cycle is being more than offset by the darker waters up north.  So, what happens when the sun starts warming up again?

Perhaps even more to the point, what happens when denial continues in the face of undeniable evidence?  Jeb Bush just tweeted about how great Trump's selection for EPA truly is ... that from a Floridian.  Most of the Virginia delegation to the House are GOPpers, and feel much the same as Jeb, while Norfolk, the home of the Atlantic Fleet, is slowly sinking into the sea.  How bad does bad have to get?