XPost: rec.food.cooking, alt.global-warming, alt.home.repair
From: zed@is.dead
On Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:00:56 -0500
Ed P wrote:
> On 2/19/2026 12:50 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> > I am not disputing that there is something going on or that it may
> > be cause by us. I will just point out there have been a number of
> > ice ages that we know about. The last one ended about 15,000 years
> > ago and the ice cap was just about in my back yard. It has been
> > receding for 15,000 years, most of that time with out the
> > industrialization and the burning of fossil fuels that are being
> > blamed now.
>
> We burn 150 million tons of fossil fuel a day.
How big is the planet?
> I would think that
> has some effect.
It's called "air pollution" - tends to effect cities in basin
topography like Salt Lake o LA.
> Recently saw a bar chart of the long time warming and a big spike
> started with the industrial revolution.
Try and look at the big spikes in prior geologic epochs.
https://co2coalition.org/facts/current-co2-levels-are-near-recor
-lows-we-are-co2-impoverished/
https://net-zero.blog/book-blog/carbon-dioxide-and-temperature-o
er-500-million-years
Roughly 300 million years ago, global temperatures and CO2 concentrations
stabilised, at levels not too dissimilar from today, before once again
beginning to climb. The next 250 million years experienced a volatile warming
trend as currents in the Earth
s liquid mantle broke apart the supercontinent Pangea, drove increasing
volcanic activity, and released CO2 and methane into the atmosphere. Through
the early temperature increases, up to 90% of all sea creatures and 65% of
land creatures were driven to
extinction. The dinosaurs emerged as the dominant species on Earth.
Carbon Dioxide concentrations peaked at over 1,000 ppm around 50
million years ago, with temperatures over 10⁰C warmer than today. The
next 50 million years are characterised by a gradually cooling planet
as volcanic activity slowed. The Antarctic ice sheets formed 30 million
years ago and Greenland glaciation took place 3 million years ago. The
evolution of our early ancestor Homo habilus, “the handy man”, followed
soon after, before Homo erectus, “the upright man”, first appeared
nearly 2 million years before today.
We have existed as a species less than 3 million years: that’s 0.06% of
the planet’s life, 0.6% of the time of trees, and represents just 2% of
the length of time the dinosaurs roamed the Earth. We have a long way
to go.
You're another easily gulled simp when it comes to the "climate change"
hobgoblin.
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