XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.global-warming, alt.atheism
XPost: sci.skeptic, alt.politics.democrats
From: drr@in.valid
On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:41:19 -0500
JTEM wrote:
> On 12/9/25 10:43 PM, Dhu on Gate wrote:
>
> > On the other hand, AGW might not be a bad idea.
> > I grew up listening to a Paleo Botanist maunder
> > on about climate change, which is REAL. The last
> > 3mil years have been *cooler* and *drier* than normal
> > for this planet's biology.
>
> We're inside of an ice age.
>
> Approximately 3 million years ago, and through the process of
> plate tectonics, the Isthmus of Panama formed. This changed
> the circulation of ocean water over the globe. Most of the
> sun's energy falls along the equator and then is distributed
> around the globe via currents...
>
> It took hundreds of thousands of years but eventually deep
> ocean temperatures fell significantly and we were inside of
> a new ice age: The Quaternary Period.
>
> At present, the Quaternary ice age is characterized by a
> glacial/interglacial cycle. The glacial periods are what
> people MISTAKENLY think of as ice ages. The interglacials
> are exactly as they sound -- a warm period between two
> glacial periods.
>
> The interglacial we all live inside is call the Holocene.
>
> The Holocene is NOT a particular warm interglacial. It's
> actually cool. It's several degrees C below the last
> interglacial, the Eemain, and sea level is approximately
> 16 feet lower.
>
> The Holocene is due to end. The Holocene is overdue to
> end! And, no, not because of Gwobull Warbling. It was
> already overdue to end in Roman times... pre Roman times!
Many trace the decline of the Roman empire to a series of colder and
drier winters that played havoc with grain production and thus hobbled
their armies' conquest and retention progress.
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