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Thurston: We’re in a global sweet spot right now

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by Steve Thurston

Here’s a thought: 

Since the peak of the last ice age about 20,000 years ago about 90% of the earth’s ice has melted, causing sea levels to rise about 400 feet, or about five feet per century on average. In the last century sea levels have risen less than one foot. Sea level rise has slowed because there is not much ice left. 

As the last 10% of the world’s ice melts over a few centuries we can expect about 40 feet of sea level rise – and warmer temperatures. The last time the earth was ice free was when the dinosaurs roamed. Tropical rainforests covered Antarctica and the climate was much warmer than today. Then a giant meteor struck the earth and rapid cooling began as dust prevented sunlight from penetrating the atmosphere. 

At some point in the distant or not so distant future some event, perhaps a meteor impact, volcanic eruption, geoengineering, or nuclear winter will trigger global cooling. 

Then the next ice age will begin. We will go from greenhouse to icehouse and within a few thousand years of the onset of cooling glaciers will advance over much of North America and global temperatures will be much colder than today. 

I’m thinking we are in a sweet spot right now and we should make peace with the climate, and each other. 

The author is an Addison County resident.

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  2. As Dane Wigington commented in his post with GeoEngineering yesterday –

    “Winter Storm Anya Spread Heavy Snow To Colorado And New Mexico” (MSN).

    “Blizzard: Feet Of Snow Cover New Mexico” (The Weather Channel).

    “Saudi Arabian desert turned into winter wonderland for first time in history” (MSN).

    Were these engineered winter weather events? Was the intent to demonstrate what climate engineering can do as the COP 29 global climate conference begins on Monday in the oil producing nation of Azerbaijan? Are the COP global climate conferences complete facades behind which climate engineering and carbon fuel production is promoted?

  4. Climate Change is the greatest bamboozle of all time.

    CARL SAGAN: “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: if we have been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back”.

    • ‘The reason we don’t believe we’ve been lied to and indoctrinated is because we’ve been lied to and indoctrinated.’

  5. The underlying but obvious fact not explicitly stated in Steve’s article is that the changing climate is NOT caused by human activity, whether that be burning fossil fuels or otherwise. The “green” movement is nothing more than an economic and control coup.