Climate change discussion thread

johntheexpat

Which is all that anyone has ever requested.  It may be dressed up differently, for whatever reason, by diffferent people,  but your simple one liner sums up the only response that makes any sense.  But still there are those who object, very vociferously.  But thats for another thread.

EarthRod

BBC News - UK must adapt for weather extremes, says Environment Agency

Well, if you want extreme fluctuations! From record low to record high in 4 months.

Stephen Wilde

There might be other factors involved:

1. Intensive farming taking more water from the rivers, when the rivers are low, for the crops because of continuous dry weather.

2. Extensive building of houses and industrial areas on river flood plans causing higher river levels.

3. Population increase demanding more water than in the past. No money being spend on building new reservoirs or dams.

4. General poor water management due to lack of funds. Not maintaining river banks or removing built-up silt.

I wonder if these complication factors were taken into account?

loz

Hello all.

Just checking in after being absent for a couple of years.

Looks rather like the climate is indeed behaving as I told you it was.

More equatorward / meridional jets at a time of quiet sun resulting in less energy entering the oceans so that the system overall first stops warming and then in due course begins to cool.

EarthRod

So, what's the consensus on the latest news about the forthcoming IPCC report where the 'pause' in warming is going to be a central topic.
BBC News - Global warming pause 'central' to IPCC climate report

There seems to be some interesting comment here for example
The state of climate science: ‘fluxed up' | Watts Up With That?

swall101

There is too much money and too much politics being 'invested' in climate change. See my post #76.

I think we can say with 100% certainty that climate change and what regulates climate is still an unknown.

DPinBucks

BBC News - Human role in warming 'more certain' - UN climate chief

EarthRod

We can say with 100% certainty that climate change and what regulates climate are known.

The regulators are:
Electromagnetic spectrum and brightness of the primary star;Orbital Size, Period and Eccentricity;Rotational period and inclination to the orbital plane;Degree of core magnetisation;Presence of surface liquid (oceans);Influence of major satellites (moons)Atmospheric components;Of these, man-made CO2 emissions are changing the atmospheric components.  They will inevitably impact the climate.

What is unknown are the precise effects of each of these and their variations.  Climate is metastable; effects of variations are chaotic.

swall101

A landmark report says scientists are 95% certain that humans are the "dominant cause" of global warming since the 1950s.

BBC News - IPCC climate report: humans 'dominant cause' of warming

DPinBucks

Suddenly gone quiet on here, hasn't it?