Sea level rise

@sonhouse said
@DeepThought
If presented with that evidence once again,, he will just say Fake news.

What evidence? It was never posted then and you havn't done so now either. Why do you cads always lie to avoid presenting evidence? Do you think you are fooling people?

@metal-brain said
What evidence? It was never posted then and you havn't done so now either. Why do you cads always lie to avoid presenting evidence? Do you think you are fooling people?

It is well known that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased since the industrial revolution. There is no point in presenting you with evidence you have already rejected.

@deepthought said
It is well known that the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased since the industrial revolution. There is no point in presenting you with evidence you have already rejected.

I never rejected that. You are such a liar!

There is no point in debating a liar like you. It is a waste of time.

@metal-brain said
I never rejected that. You are such a liar!

There is no point in debating a liar like you. It is a waste of time.

Do you agree that carbon dioxide levels have been increasing since that start of the industrial revolution or not?

@deepthought said
Do you agree that carbon dioxide levels have been increasing since that start of the industrial revolution or not?

When the little ice age ended the climate warmed. A warmer ocean resulted in the ocean not being able to hold as much CO2, so it was expelled into the atmosphere increasing atmospheric CO2.
The answer is yes, but not entirely for the reason you think. Besides, very little burning of fossil fuels took place at the start of the industrial revolution. Furthermore, alarmists have claimed that burning coal puts particulate matter into the atmosphere that blocks the sun and causes cooling as opposed to warming which contradicts the warming hypothesis. Which is it? Does burning coal cause global warming or global cooling? Make up your bloody mind!

You need to establish that the timing is more than coincidence. How many years after the little ice age did CO2 levels rise in the atmosphere and how much? Your lack of data suggests you are merely guessing.

@metal-brain said
When the little ice age ended the climate warmed. A warmer ocean resulted in the ocean not being able to hold as much CO2, so it was expelled into the atmosphere increasing atmospheric CO2.
The answer is yes, but not entirely for the reason you think. Besides, very little burning of fossil fuels took place at the start of the industrial revolution. Furthermore, alarmist ...[text shortened]... CO2 levels rise in the atmosphere and how much? Your lack of data suggests you are merely guessing.

So do you agree that the most recent carbon dioxide level increase is mainly man made or not?

@humy said
So do you agree that the most recent carbon dioxide level increase is mainly man made or not?

Sure, but when is your timeline? You don't seem to want to accept CO2 is not the bogeyman. Let me give you some facts to consider.

During the Ordovician period, the concentration of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere was about eight times higher than today. It has been hard to explain why the climate cooled and why the Ordovician glaciations took place.

CO2 fluctuated between about 180 ppm during ice ages and 280 ppm during interglacial warm periods. We know from ice core samples that the CO2 lagged behind the temperatures so CO2 was NOT the cause. It was the effect of warming.

When the earth warms some of that CO2 will come from the oceans. If you can show that CO2 increased more than would be naturally expected and a correlating bump in temps or sea level I will look at it. If there is, a peer reviewed article must exist to confirm it.

Edit: Look up this- Figure 1, FAQ 2.1, IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007), Chapter 2

Notice how CO2 lagged behind methane before the industrial revolution and the clear pattern. Can you explain it?

Temps cause methane and CO2 to rise in correlation with CO2 lagging behind methane. You can see that the warming started before the industrial revolution started.

http://euanmearns.com/the-vostok-ice-core-temperature-co2-and-ch4/

Even after the industrial revolution CO2 still lagged behind methane. Can you explain this?

@metal-brain said
Temps cause methane and CO2 to rise in correlation with CO2 lagging behind methane. You can see that the warming started before the industrial revolution started.

http://euanmearns.com/the-vostok-ice-core-temperature-co2-and-ch4/

Even after the industrial revolution CO2 still lagged behind methane. Can you explain this?

From your link http://euanmearns.com/the-vostok-ice-core-temperature-co2-and-ch4/:

Conclusions
Over four glacial cycles CO2, CH4 and temperature display cyclical co-variation. This has been used by the climate science community as evidence for amplification of orbital forcing via greenhouse gas feedbacks.

I am not the first to observe that CO2 lags temperature in Vostok [2] and indeed Petit et al [1] make the observation that at the onset of glaciation CO2 lags temperature by several thousand years. But they fail to discuss this and the fairly profound implications it has.

Temperature and CH4 are extremely tightly correlated with no time lags. Thus, while CO2 and CH4 are correlated with temperature in a general sense, in detail their response to global geochemical cycles are different. Again Petit et al [1] make the observation but fail to discuss it.

At the onset of the last glaciation the time lag was 8,000 years and the world was cast into the depths of an ice age with CO2 variance evidently contributing little to the large fall in temperature.

The only conclusion possible from Vostok is that variations in CO2 and CH4 are both caused by global temperature change and freeze thaw cycles at high latitudes. These natural geochemical cycles makes it inevitable that CO2 and CH4 will correlate with temperature. It is therefore totally invalid to use this relationship as evidence for CO2 forcing of climate, especially since during the onset of glaciations, there is no correlation at all.

So, the link you supply seems concerned only with issues related to the natural glaciation cycle that runs its course over the span of tens of thousands of years. The dynamics that exist between atmospheric CO2 and CH4 levels, and between these levels and global mean atmospheric temperature, and finally between all these factors and the glaciation cycle that is theorized to be primarily caused by orbital forcing*, is by no means necessarily relevant to the cause-and-effect relationships amongst the selfsame factors as they relate to anthropogenic influences that span a mere half a millennium at best.

You can see that the warming started before the industrial revolution started.

At your link I see a temporally large-scale warming cycle that indeed predates the industrial revolution in Figure 6. The tic marks on the horizontal axis each represent 4000 years, however. Anthropogenic global warming is theorized to have begun about 200 or so years ago. None of the figures in your link come within even an order of magnitude of so fine a time scale.

There's the glaciation cycle, and then there's anthropogenic warming. You need data and ANOVA statistical techniques to parse the two. Does your link make any kind of case in the context of the present discussion? No.


* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_forcing

@soothfast said
From your link http://euanmearns.com/the-vostok-ice-core-temperature-co2-and-ch4/:

[quote]Conclusions
Over four glacial cycles CO2, CH4 and temperature display cyclical co-variation. This has been used by the climate science community as evidence for amplification of orbital forcing via greenhouse gas feedbacks.

I am not the first to observe that CO2 lags temperature ...[text shortened]... in the context of the present discussion? No.


* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_forcing

During the Ordovician period, the concentration of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere was about eight times higher than today. It has been hard to explain why the climate cooled and why the Ordovician glaciations took place. If CO2 is the bogeyman why did the climate get colder with 8 times as much CO2?

Look at a chart that has both CO2 and methane levels.

Figure 1, FAQ 2.1, IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007), Chapter 2

Notice how a methane low is at close to 1700 before it starts rising again. That proves the warming trend started before the industrial revolution (about 1800) from natural causes since CO2 levels were too low to be anthropogenic.

@metal-brain said
If you can't prove anthropogenic global warming with a long term sea level rise graph you never will. Alarmists always use short term data to mislead, so a long term graph is the only way to really see what has happened historically.
Anybody can claim sea levels are rising at an alarming rate, but to show it on a long term chart is the real proof.

Talk is cheap. Show ...[text shortened]... ong term graph. If you cannot do that there is a name for you, denier of science. Don't be a denier.

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2015/06/28/floridas-evolution-underwater-state-sink/29418253/ Planet earth just doing it's thing. Keep givin al gore money fools

@kquinn909 said
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2015/06/28/floridas-evolution-underwater-state-sink/29418253/ Planet earth just doing it's thing. Keep givin al gore money fools

Al Gore is a lobbyist. He works for alternative energy companies to push subsidies. Interestingly, it's not focused on zero emissions, or he'd have a much larger portfolio of nuclear energy companies.

I've said this before and got shot down by a know it all but it needs repeating.

CO2 and Methane levels have also followed the rise in human population as well as the industrial revolution. With the rise in population there has also been a rise in farming, deforestation, travel and live stock.

In 1800 there were 1 billion humans on the planet, it took 30,000ish years to get there. We will be at 8 billion and by 2020. But more importantly the population has INCREASED by 1 billion in the last 12 years. 30,000 years to get to 1 billion, 12 years to increase by 1 billion!!!!

Also, the total fixation with CO2 is deflecting from other issues. since 1800 CO2 levels have increased by 60%. Methane levels by 400%.

The amount of man made CO2 in the atmosphere is around 5%.
The amount of man made Methane in the atmosphere is around 65%.

NASA has stated that in the next 5 years and every subsequent 5 year period methane will create 20x MORE warming than CO2.

What is this total fixation with CO2 as if it will solve the problem. It won't.

We need a raft of measures and technical intervention in order to stop sea levels and temperatures rising. Starting with Limits on the number of children couples can have.

@Grandmaster-bater

Not trying to shoot down all your points (several of which are valid), but overall I think the policy proposals would be the same regarding methane vs. CO2. What causes man-made methane emissions are the same things that cause CO2 emissions. Land use changes should obviously be a high priority, and if you look at scientific proposals (e.g. IPCC) that is always a big part of their recommendations.

@wildgrass said
@Grandmaster-bater

Not trying to shoot down all your points (several of which are valid), but overall I think the policy proposals would be the same regarding methane vs. CO2. What causes man-made methane emissions are the same things that cause CO2 emissions. Land use changes should obviously be a high priority, and if you look at scientific proposals (e.g. IPCC) that is always a big part of their recommendations.

"What causes man-made methane emissions are the same things that cause CO2 emissions."

Are you sure? What about agriculture? Are you going to tax farms and golf courses for using artificial fertilizers? What is your methane plan?