Climate Change The New Catalyst For Globalists/Communist Utopia

From what I’ve read, volcanic eruptions do have a significant short-term impact on climate, in that the aerosol particles they put into the atmosphere short-term global cooling. Perhaps that’s what you’re thinking of. See for example:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Volcano/

It’s partly due to this known, measured *cooling* effect of volcanoes that one of the leading geo-engineering ideas to combat warming is to deliberately create stratospheric aerosols.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_sulfate_aerosols_(geoengineering)

Satanus:

"Less sarcasticly though.... The truth is that our favorable weather is and always has been on a knife edge balance. In the distant past, the whole freekin planet has been totally frozen over, at least a couple of times. Volcanoes and asteroids have wiped the planet almost clean at least a couple of times. Change in the weather is the ONLY constant."

My understanding, according to geological findings, is that we entered an unstable state approximately 2 million years ago. We had sporadic ice ages before then (and one or two worse ones like snowball earth) but they did not occur in the staccato, one after the other, fashion that has been occuring within those past two million years. The cause of our regular predicament is supposed to be the isthmus of Panama. Before South America permanently linked to North America the ocean currents kept us relatively stable and warm. But when Panama finally staged a permanent appearance it created a chain reaction of changes in the ocean currents causing us to be on the knifes edge as you put it between ice age and warm interludes. My feeling is that the warm periods outnumbered, in years, the cold ones (I'm not referring to the past 2 million years but to the past billion).

Although it is speculated that the industrial revolution helped to get us out of the "mini-ice age" that Europe (not necessarily the rest of the world) experienced, our continous release of CO2 can put us in a hot period in which the only habitable zone for agriculture is in Siberia and Alaska. James Lovelock, author of the Gaia hypothesis, estimates 100 million people inhabiting the circumpolar regions. This is the worse case scenario requiring 1000 parts per million of CO2 (compared with our current 380). Even if the actual situation turns out to be one fourth as bad that would create one extremely nasty bit of history.

As far as asteroids and comets it was in the young days of our solar system that they were a nuisance to our planet. They have dwindled down to a relatively safe number as far as the king size ones are concerned.

As far as your conclusion that change in the weather is the only constant my conclusion is, why provoke it? We could last for millions of years on this planet and prevent the weather from getting worse with well thought out geo-engineering techniques. And within a few thousand years, we could be living in space colonies, like the "O'Neil Cylinders" where we would have miles of park like surface and perfectly adjusted climate.

villabolo

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Villa

I agree that we have the potential and will probably arrive at a standard where we can manage the weather of the whole earth., whether that involves massive gas pumping, shading/heating w mirrors, levelling a mountain range or two, or cutting the isthmus. However, at this moment, while we are generally warming,, more is unknown than known about the whole field of weather, imo. We are making, not even baby steps. We are still in the flailing stages.

S

i will be happy to respond to happyguy if anyone is interested.

Go Besty. I'll read it.

Me too Besty.

villabolo

Gore cancels on Copenhagen lecture – leaves ticketholders in a lurch

Watts Up With That
Thursday, December 3, 2009

"It seems the uncertainty about Copenhagen is growing. When Al baby pulls the plug, you know it’s hosed.........."

http://www.prisonplanet.com/gore-cancels-on-copenhagen-lecture-%E2%80%93-leaves-ticketholders-in-a-lurch.html