Schwarzenegger: I don’t give a damn if we agree about climate change

Re:Schwarzenegger: I don’t give a damn if we agree about cli... by dTal on Monday December 07, 2015 @06:10PM (#10693504)

Yes. It's not as far out of the historical norms as CO2 levels, but the gradient on it is astounding. It's taken us about 100 years for temperatures to rise beyond their last peak, which occurred about 7000 years ago [1]. Note that this is precisely coincident with the rise in CO2.

It's true that there's a historical feedback loop between CO2 and temperature, which operates in cycles. But we are now operating far beyond the usual range of that system, whatever it is, and nobody knows exactly what will happen next.

[1] https://www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/styles/inline_al...

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Re:Schwarzenegger: I don’t give a damn if we agree about cli... by DougWebb on Monday December 07, 2015 @09:32PM (#10694398)

The wikipedia chart covers 450 thousand years on the x-axis, and a 14 degree range on the y-axis. Your chart covers 12 thousand years on x and 2 degrees on y. If your chart was shrunk to the same scale and overlaid on the first chart, it would be lost in the noise, and your astounding gradient would be nothing compared to the rises and falls 20K and 140K years ago, among others.

Very disingenuous of you.

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