ScienceRocks
Democrat all the way!
- Mar 16, 2010
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Two things that make me wonder...
1. The fact we didn't know about the ocean's ability to take in the heat and change regime on a global scale. There was no talk of this in the 1990's...Just that the surface temperature was going up and that was all that mattered. This appears to have been all that was needed to stop global warming in its tracks.
2. The fact that the IPCC's, 1st and 2nd outlook couldn't of seen China and India exploding in economic growth the past 15 years. = HUGE amounts of co2 added into the climate system above anything the western world was expected to do. YET, somehow we still have the same general thinking of temperature as in the late 80's or 90's. Based on the 500gt of co2 we need to pump into the atmosphere to finally be assured of 2c of warming... Well, maybe they hyped it out of proportion? Or maybe it isn't true?
1. The fact we didn't know about the ocean's ability to take in the heat and change regime on a global scale. There was no talk of this in the 1990's...Just that the surface temperature was going up and that was all that mattered. This appears to have been all that was needed to stop global warming in its tracks.
2. The fact that the IPCC's, 1st and 2nd outlook couldn't of seen China and India exploding in economic growth the past 15 years. = HUGE amounts of co2 added into the climate system above anything the western world was expected to do. YET, somehow we still have the same general thinking of temperature as in the late 80's or 90's. Based on the 500gt of co2 we need to pump into the atmosphere to finally be assured of 2c of warming... Well, maybe they hyped it out of proportion? Or maybe it isn't true?
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