No Worries..........

So, why a Blog now?

Well mainly because I can no longer 'keep up' with the forum posting I used to vent my angst on.... my poor noggin is just not up to it any more!

There is no disconnect 'twixt mind and body...traffic flows in both directions and so a knackered body impacts the mind just as much as a knackered mind will mess with your physical health.

That said the issues that do give me cause for concern truly do weigh heavily on me these days.

Rapid climate shift is one such concern. 

Not that you would think it a 'concern' if you read right wing media or listened to republican rhetoric or were a reader of the disinformation blogs. You'd be quite happily sold on the lie that nobody knows anything about our climate 'for sure' , that the climate has always changed ( why? weren't we under a mile of ice just 20 thousand years ago???) and that anything of concern is merely an attempt by corrupt science teams to secure the next gushing installment of the gravy train on which they ride......

If you are a 'sceptic' , in the fullest sense of the word, you might currently hold a very different opinion on where our planet is headed.

You see even the word 'Sceptic' has been robbed of it's meaning by the Koch Bro.'s endeavour's , a once noble intent is now sullied with the misleaders wish to lie ,cheat, misinform the Developed World into thinking that all we once knew about atmospheric science is tosh and that past records of our planet's climate are all based on guesswork. The fact that their Dollar has been wisely invested can be heard in near every discussion about climate change, about the threats we face and of Global Warming's  current 'status'. But then if you had  you employed the teams that helped the tobacco industry save Billions on payouts to it's victim's ( by keeping the debate about it's 'health properties' running until most all claims had died with the claimant's ) you can see why?

I am no Scientist and so need content myself with the 'wide view' of climate change.I can look at paleo climates and see how different a world it would be if global temps matched those in past epoch's. I can ask as to why we wouldn't return to such climates if we force the atmosphere's greenhouse Gasses to similar levels? I can see many different periods of higher G.H.G. forcings throughout our recent geological record and each one hosts higher global temps and higher sea levels. To me it is as simple as 'A,B,C'. Do this and this will , over time, result. Raise the Planets capacity to hold onto heat and that is just what the Planet will do. Mother Nature is a great one for balance, she will do Her level best to keep everything in balance so when we change one of the parameters she will, through her inscrutable ways, allow everything else to find the 'new' balance point.

Now this would not be so bad if we were just looking at the extra carbon we have introduced into the system but things are never that simple.

Our planet is on the chilly side of it's being. It's only been recently ( past 35 million years that is) that we have sported permanent ice sheets on the planet. for the longest of times our 'balance point' was one with more G.H.G.'s  and so higher global temps and sea levels. When , for one reason and another, we began to cool we not only put on ice but also put into cold storage the part of the Carbon Cycle that had allowed us those higher temps. The old Carbon Cycle did not disappear, it just went into hibernation.

Mankind has now found another source of Carbon to flood the atmosphere with. The remnants of Carbon cycle many tens of millions of years old ( over 200 million for the Carboniferous deposits!) and one that should never ,ever, have been allowed to see the light of day again. Over the millions of years it would either have slowly been drawn back into the planet at plate margins or just been buried ever deeper inside the Continents.

"So what?" you say.

Well more G.H.G.'s mean higher Temp.s ( and sea levels) and this means the global ice sheets will no longer be stable features at their current extents. Under that ice , and making up the permafrost ,is the 'old' portion of the Carbon Cycle that used to keep the planet nice and toasty.

The Climate Misleaders would want you believe it 'reasonable' that , were G.H.G.'s as dangerous as science paints them, that we should see near instant responses from their increases in the atmosphere.If we don't then Global Warming is nought but a lie purportrated by greedy scientists hungry for funding.......

When you understand that Mankind has flooded the atmosphere with G.H.G.'s up to 100 times faster than Mother N. ever did in the past you can begin to understand why we should not expect this 'instant' change. When past Epoch's showed temp rises taking 1,000's of years to occur you can see why our recent 'hikes' are so anomalous.

 The question has to be 'How will Mother N. respond to such instant forcing?'

Maybe the 2007 'mega melt' across the Arctic Basin gives us  clues both to how She will attempt to find balance but also of the problems she will find as She allows Temps to rise............