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Alright sure, the 40 year trend differs from the 10 year trend. That's a good reason to be skeptical of my original claims (seriously). Maybe you can provide m

Alright sure, the 40 year trend differs from the 10 year trend. That's a good reason to be skeptical of my original claims (seriously). Maybe you can provide more counter-argument to my skepticism of climate changes being man-made. Take a look at this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Phanerozoic_Sea_Level.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Phaneroz... Sea levels have historically gone all over the place, definitely without us driving SUVs way back when. Now this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Post-Glacial_Sea_Level.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Post-Gla... It's pretty stable during the industrial revolution, when CO2 production really was kicked up a notch. Also, the rate of sea level rises rose at a much faster rate say 10,000 years ago than they're rising right now. What I'm trying to say is that I think these temperature trends are more macro on the order of thousands of years, and probably mostly out of our control. I think what we're seeing now with contemporary research - 10 years ago, or 40 years ago - is mostly noise.

pilsetnieks 11y ago
Chart 1: take a look at the scale, it says "millions of years." The predicted sea level changes would be fine and easy to deal with if they were projected to happen in a million years, not in a few decades. Chart 2: again, the scale, it's thousands of years. A thousand years literally take up 20 pixels in that chart, so the beginning of the industrial revolution was about 5 pixels from the right. It's literally smaller than the dots used to mark the data points. Also, CO2 and greenhouse gasses released due to human activity are higher now than they have ever been in history: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Global_Carbon_Emission_by_Type_to_Y2004.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Global_C... (this whole chart fits inside the last dot on your second chart.)

pilsetnieks 11y ago

Chart 1: take a look at the scale, it says "millions of years." The predicted sea level changes would be fine and easy to deal with if they were projected to happen in a million years, not in a few decades. Chart 2: again, the scale, it's thousands of years. A thousand years literally take up 20 pixels in that chart, so the beginning of the industrial revolution was about 5 pixels from the right. It's literally smaller than the dots used to mark the data points. Also, CO2 and greenhouse gasses released due to human activity are higher now than they have ever been in history: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Global_Carbon_Emission_by_Type_to_Y2004.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Global_C... (this whole chart fits inside the last dot on your second chart.)