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wildbill83 · 41-45, M
TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 46-50, MVIP
@wildbill83 lolz 🤣
pennynoodles · 56-60, F
Good point.@wildbill83
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@wildbill83 No, of course not; and that may not have been the end of "the Ice Age". That was part of a natural cycle and we are still in THE Ice Age (a cycle of cold and warm phases with periods of hundreds of thousands of years).
Whether we are in another interglacial or at the end of the entire oscillation is another matter.
Obviously we can do nothing about those.
The difficulty is that whatever the natural warming rate should be at the moment, only 10 000 to 12 000 years after the last glaciation is considered to have ended, human activities have greatly increased that rate.
There are those who question that, some from genuine scientific concerns but most from political and/or commercial interests; but the scientific consensus world-wide does agree the human effect.
Whether extreme events like the droughts and heat-waves that encouraged the recent fires in California or Australia, or more vague changes like less distinct seasons in temperate regions like the British Isles, really are due to climate change is a moot point. However, they are weather changes, and could well be due to climate change.
What counts though are mean atmospheric conditions and ocean temperatures; and their context against reliable, detailed weather data collected since the 19C when they became possible. (More anecdotal accounts going back centuries are useful too but these lack detail such as actual temperatures.)
It's important to realise the significance when scientists talk of a mean temperature rise in the air or seas of what seems a tiny 1 or 2 degrees Celsius (the scale formerly called "Centigrade"). To gain that rise in temperature , shows the atmosphere and oceans have absorbed a gigantic amount of extraheat energy to drive the climate according largely to latitude, and from that, the regional weather.
Whether we are in another interglacial or at the end of the entire oscillation is another matter.
Obviously we can do nothing about those.
The difficulty is that whatever the natural warming rate should be at the moment, only 10 000 to 12 000 years after the last glaciation is considered to have ended, human activities have greatly increased that rate.
There are those who question that, some from genuine scientific concerns but most from political and/or commercial interests; but the scientific consensus world-wide does agree the human effect.
Whether extreme events like the droughts and heat-waves that encouraged the recent fires in California or Australia, or more vague changes like less distinct seasons in temperate regions like the British Isles, really are due to climate change is a moot point. However, they are weather changes, and could well be due to climate change.
What counts though are mean atmospheric conditions and ocean temperatures; and their context against reliable, detailed weather data collected since the 19C when they became possible. (More anecdotal accounts going back centuries are useful too but these lack detail such as actual temperatures.)
It's important to realise the significance when scientists talk of a mean temperature rise in the air or seas of what seems a tiny 1 or 2 degrees Celsius (the scale formerly called "Centigrade"). To gain that rise in temperature , shows the atmosphere and oceans have absorbed a gigantic amount of extraheat energy to drive the climate according largely to latitude, and from that, the regional weather.
SW-User
@wildbill83 you made the point actually, thanks
Magenta · F
@wildbill83 😄 Haha, indeed.