Steffensen's views are misrepresented in your post
Like “rats inside the experiment,” Neils Bohr Institute glaciology professor Jorgen Peder Steffensen says of us humans when he considers the risks of a sudden reconfiguration of global circulation which could, among other things, cause long-term drying across America’s breadbasket states.
“That’s going to impact the entire world,” Steffensen cautions in recognizing that the 11,000 years of the interglacial period since the last ice age “has been unreasonably stable. And we don’t know why” or how long that stability may persist.
Steffensen, in exceptionally eloquent and straightforward language, acknowledges that models consistently point to a gradual global increase in temperatures as a result of the continue widespread combustion of fossil fuels and increased emissions of carbon dioxide. “But that’s assuming the climate plays nice,” he says.
“And we actually know from the ice cores that the climate does not play nice all the time.”
But he is concerned that human activities could be “tipping the climate into an intermediate period of climate changes….
Many unknowns remain, therefore there will be caveats, especially in terms of maintaining research funding. If one dares contradicting the current hysteria around "human caused global warming", one's career is over and may be smeared by the press and alienated by colleagues.
Nonetheless, I agree, it is difficult to decouple human activities from normal cyclical global warming and cooling. It could be a blip hidden in the noise of climate change, or part of the general trand.
Note the noise in the data showing climate change superimposed on the curve of ice age cycles. Climate change is normal in these 10,000 year cycles.
>The earth is 4.5 billion years old. Modern Man has been burning fossil fuels 200 years or so
>Where is heck is the climate data for the last 4.54299 billion years??
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Steffensen's views are misrepresented in your post
Like “rats inside the experiment,” Neils Bohr Institute glaciology professor Jorgen Peder Steffensen says of us humans when he considers the risks of a sudden reconfiguration of global circulation which could, among other things, cause long-term drying across America’s breadbasket states.
“That’s going to impact the entire world,” Steffensen cautions in recognizing that the 11,000 years of the interglacial period since the last ice age “has been unreasonably stable. And we don’t know why” or how long that stability may persist.
Steffensen, in exceptionally eloquent and straightforward language, acknowledges that models consistently point to a gradual global increase in temperatures as a result of the continue widespread combustion of fossil fuels and increased emissions of carbon dioxide. “But that’s assuming the climate plays nice,” he says.
“And we actually know from the ice cores that the climate does not play nice all the time.”
But he is concerned that human activities could be “tipping the climate into an intermediate period of climate changes….
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/10/humans-experimenting-with-climates-playing-nice/
Thanks for your comment Jack.
Many unknowns remain, therefore there will be caveats, especially in terms of maintaining research funding. If one dares contradicting the current hysteria around "human caused global warming", one's career is over and may be smeared by the press and alienated by colleagues.
Nonetheless, I agree, it is difficult to decouple human activities from normal cyclical global warming and cooling. It could be a blip hidden in the noise of climate change, or part of the general trand.
Note the noise in the data showing climate change superimposed on the curve of ice age cycles. Climate change is normal in these 10,000 year cycles.
>The earth is 4.5 billion years old. Modern Man has been burning fossil fuels 200 years or so
>Where is heck is the climate data for the last 4.54299 billion years??