Slow Suicide
The BBC is as good a place as any to read it – IPCC climate report: humans ‘dominant cause’ of warming.
In Juan Cole’s post he makes a point that I have stressed several times to deniers of reality – if you predict the average temperature based on historical data and the known climate cycles, the temperature should be dropping noticeably. Historically we should be experiencing colder temperatures which is why climatologists who based their research on the cyclical nature of earth’s climate were writing about the possibility of another ‘ice age’ back in the 1970s.
What this means is that we have had some luck and are overheating the planet at a time of cooling. Without the cooling cycle we would be even worse off than we are, so it is important to deal with this before solar activity starts up again and adds to the heating.
