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Bargaining with the climate devils : Comments
By Lyn Bender, published 15/12/2015Beyond its declared purpose of deal making, the Paris Summit was a massive witnessing and outpouring of grief.
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1. Earth is in a coldhouse phase. In fact we are in only the third cold house phase in more than half a billion years (the time when multi-cell animal life has thrived on Earth).
2. There have been no ice sheets at the poles for 75% of the past half billion years, demonstrating the planet is unusual cold.
3. The planet has been cooling from its normal tempts for the past 50 million years.
4. Life thrives when the planet is warmer and struggles when colder.
5. The climate does not change in smooth curves as projected by the GCM's. The climate changes abruptly; always has always will.
6. We are currently past the peak of the current interglacial. If not for humans' GHG emissions the next abrupt change would be to cooler - that's catastrophic. Warming is not catastrophic, as clearly demonstrated by the paleo evidence
7. Our GHG emissions are reducing the risk of the next abrupt climate change - we are delaying the next abrupt cooling and reducing its severity. This has to be balanced against the risks of potential (but temporary) increased warming (the long term cooling to the next ice age will continue, and the sequence of ice ages and interglacials will continue until the plates realign so North and South America are separated and ocean currents can flow around the world in low latitudes).
Those interested in the climate debate are urged to do their own reality checks, not just confirm their biases by reading only the doctrine according to the preachers of the Greens religion.