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I think you are saying that climate change may not necessarily occur? Why do you think so? (Just curious)
by witty_username 11y ago
I think you are saying that climate change may not necessarily occur? Why do you think so? (Just curious)
- graycat 11y agoWe have a lot of really solid evidence of significant climate change going back at least 110 million years. There is also evidence back 65 million years, 600,000 years, and 500 years. For the last 2000 years there is Committee on Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years, National Research Council, 'Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years', ISBN 0-309-66264-8, 196 pages, National Academies Press, 2006. still available at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11676.html http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11676.html
- DennisP 11y agoThe fact that climate has gone through major changes before is the reason people are worried. If it had been stable for a billion years, we could be confident that powerful negative feedbacks keep it that way. Instead, we see minor initial changes kicking off positive feedbacks that take things much further. Hansen's book goes into this in detail.