On Friday, July 12, 2019 at 1:05:06 PM UTC-10, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2019-07-12 7:02 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
> > On Friday, July 12, 2019 at 8:56:26 AM UTC-10, Sheldon wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm certain that the climate is changing but so impeceptively and
> >> slowly that no one has noticed any changes in over a thousand years.
> >> What changes on a daily basis is weather... for as long as I'm here
> >> each year's seasons have been eswsentially a duplicate of previous
> >> year's. There's nothing humans can do on this planet to affect its
> >> climate... only what occurs on our sun can affect climate. Anyone
> >> talking climate change has to have gone comatose in the 4th grade...
> >> that's about when the rudiments of our solar system is learned...
> >> wasn't all that long ago when humans learned that this planet wasn't
> >> flat and the planets were in solar orbit. Climate change is a
> >> misnomer... anyone with a functioning brain says solar and atmospheric
> >> change. Climate is a product of the polluting populations
> >
> > "There's nothing humans can do on this planet to affect its climate..."
> >
> > "Climate is a product of the polluting populations"
> >
> > That's goofy as hell.
> >
>
> I live in an area that has a deposit of sand and gravel that was left
> behind about 15,000 years ago when the glaciers from the last ice age
> started retreating. I don't doubt that the climate is changing, but I
> have to wonder what happened 15,000 years ago to start melting the
> glaciers.

Beats me what causes the temperature of the planet to go up and down. I'm pretty sure though, that the global thermal-nuclear war caused by the geopolitical stresses of rapid climate change is going to cool down this planet pronto.