Study: Global Warming Has Saved Us From a New Ice Age Mario Tama/Getty Images by JAMES DELINGPOLE14 Jan 2016500 Man-made global warming is our friend. According to a study inNature, the extra CO2 generated by our burning of fossil fuels has postponed the next ice age for at least 100,000 years. The new research, published in the journal Nature, examined the eight global ice ages over the past 800,000 years and used complex climate models to determine the critical factors that kickstarted the big freezes. The result was surprisingly simple. A particular combination of lower sunlight at a latitude of 65 deg N, where snow surviving through the summer leads to ice sheets, and low carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was the signal for a new ice age to dawn. The level of sunlight is very predictable as it varies with cyclical changes in the shape of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun and in the tilt of the Earth’s axis, calledMilankovitch cycles. But the level of CO2 has been drastically altered by human activity, rising from 280ppm at the start of the industrial revolution to 400ppm today. The researchers showed that even if carbon emissions are limited to the amount consistent with a 2C rise in temperatures – the internationally agreed goal – there will be enough CO2 in the atmosphere to avoid future ice ages that could have started 50,000 or 90,000 years from now. Since a new ice age would kill life on earth far more effectively than a few degrees C of global warming, this ought to be good news. Unfortunately the study needs to be taken with a hefty pinch of salt because it’s based on “complex climate models” and emanates from Germany’s fanatically warmist Potsdam Institute, which is ideologically committed to “proving” that CO2 is a significant driver of “climate change” even when most real-world evidence suggests it’s not. One of the study’s co-authors is none other than Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the hard left activist who advised the Pope on his eco Encyclical last year and who was responsible for inventing the random and bogus 2° C target so often cited by policymakers to justify more green taxes and regulations. Schellnhuber says: “Now human interference is acting as a huge geological force, so this is a defining paper for the Anthropocene idea.” One of his fellow warmists, Professor Andrew Watson of the University of Exeter, agrees. The Guardian quotes him as saying: “Humans now effectively control the climate of the planet. If only we were wise enough to be able to use that power responsibly. Unfortunately, I don’t think we’ve reached that level of wisdom yet.” What neither appears to have appreciated is that if the science of this study is to be taken seriously then it spells disaster for the man-made global warming industry. The reason we should act now to combat climate change, we’re constantly told by activists, scientists and politicians, is to make sure the world is safe to be enjoyed by “future generations.” We don’t know much about “future generations” but of one thing we can be pretty sure: they’ll be much more comfortable living in tropics-style heat than they would be under a mile and a half of ice. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/14/global-warming-saves-the-world/
"Since a new ice age would kill life on earth far more effectively than a few degrees C of global warming, this ought to be good news. Unfortunately the study needs to be taken with a hefty pinch of salt because it’s based on “complex climate models” and emanates from Germany’s fanatically warmist Potsdam Institute, which is ideologically committed to “proving” that CO2 is a significant driver of “climate change” even when most real-world evidence suggests it’s not. One of the study’s co-authors is none other than Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, the hard left activist who advised the Pope on his eco Encyclical last year and who was responsible for inventing the random and bogus 2° C target so often cited by policymakers to justify more green taxes and regulations." !!!! It would seem the Global Warming Religion, like most religions, has its Dogma, impervious to science and logic.
the government needs to buy up these cheap coal mines and failing coal companies and save them for a cold day.
Yes I agree piezoe... I was just doing that to poke fun at the agw nutters. I have been saying you can't take these failing co2 models seriously for years. I don't have any reason to believe this model is better than those.
Q http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7585/full/nature16494.html Nature | Letter 日本語要約 Critical insolation–CO2 relation for diagnosing past and future glacial inception A. Ganopolski1, R. Winkelmann1, 2, H. J. Schellnhuber1, 3, UQ What's the difference between a Letter and an Article published as a Paper by Nature ? It seems two separate categories. I don't know. BTW: Q Yes, we are avoiding an Ice Age, but this has been obvious for years Posted by Greg Laden on January 14, 2016 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2...-ice-age-but-this-has-been-obvious-for-years/ So, when media report that this study suggests that anthropogenic global warming has put off an ice age, they are talking about shifting a 50,000 year delay to the next ice age (without human effects) to a 100,000 year delay. This would be a new idea, because we were thinking that we had put off an ice age that was just about to happen (over the next centuries). So, the paper actually says nearly the exact opposite of what the press says it says. How could this happen? Can’t imagine… The Paper: Ganopolski, A. R. Winkelmann,& H. J. Schellnhuber. 2016. Critical insolation–CO2 relation for diagnosing past and future glacial inception. Nature 529, 200–203 (14 January 2016) doi:10.1038/nature16494. UQ
oh yes, we are avoiding an ice age, but in 30 years when the sun starts acting up again there will be hell to pay for all the co2 you have been burning just to stay warm
I think this topic would be a legitimate issue about earth science. There should have been some researchers produced some papers already so far, I would guess. I would be extremely surprised if no or nothing. How could the AGW climate sceptics miss this golden opportunity!?
Ice Age; due to occur in ten thousand years if man made global warming wasn't happening Rapid man made global warming; occurring now and causing climate catastrophe in one hundred years.
1. troll.... the study was in nature magazine... brietbart just reported on it. 2. Liar... Rapid man made global warming? what the hell is that? your nutter scientists buddies speculate that there could be a tipping point. but can you show us... using todays best statistical analysis that we are warming outside natural variation... yet alone rapidly due to man made co2? Show us the science that says man made co2 is causing warming...