From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 23/02/2026 2:16 am, john larkin wrote:   
   > On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:51:26 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid   
   > (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:   
   >   
   >> Bill Sloman  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On 21/02/2026 11:55 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:   
   >>>> Bill Sloman  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Anthropogenic global warming has already raised sea surface temperatures   
   >>>>> by more than one degree Celcius over pre-industrial levels. That puts   
   >>>>> 10% more water vapour in the air above the oceans, and 10% more energy   
   >>>>> tinto extreme weather events.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Where would that energy have gone otherwise?   
   >>>   
   >>> Obviously into warming the oceans even more. This decreases the amount   
   >>> of CO2 they can take up, but since CO2 levels in the atmosphere are   
   >>> going up a lot faster than the oceans are warming up, this is a long   
   >>> term problem. At the moment  about half the extra CO2 we are emitting   
   >>> ends up in the oceans   
   >>   
   >> A wam ocean leads to more cloud cover which reflects more energy into   
   >> space which reduces the overall energy input from the Sun.  Sounds as   
   >> though the system might be stable in the long term.   
   >   
   > Pretty obviously we have negative feedbacks, otherwise we'd be Venus.   
   >   
   > The AGW industry has to invent and simulate positive-feedback tipping   
   > points. Their funding depends on it.   
      
   They don't have to invent anything. The existence of ice ages and   
   interglacials shows that that there are positive feedbacks in play.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_thermal_maximum   
      
   reports a rather earlier event - some 55.8 million s years ago - where   
   what seems to have been a fairly rapid dump of a lot of methane into the   
   atmosphere over some ten to twenty thousand years produced some 200,000   
   years of global warming.   
      
   You've been told about this before, but don't seem to be able to   
   understand the message. The fossil carbon extraction industry has   
   mastered the art of spoon-feeding you their misinformation in a way that   
   leaves you feeling good about your intellectual limitations.   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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