"I don't know what you are talking about. I seriously doubt you do either. "
During the 1960s and early 1970s, the general cooling trend was noted and there was concern that we were heading into another glacial period. Interglacials, like we are currently in, aren't stable. The typical history is either glaciers or no glaciers. And the more recent history is ice age, interglacial, ice age, ...
Our interglacial is about as long as they have been happening recently. There, in fact, are reasons to suspect that if it wasn't for the higher than normal CO2 concentrations, we should be sliding back into an ice age.
It seems pretty likely that the higher albedo due to particle production because of pollution that the temperature increase that one would expect from greater CO2 concentration was masked. With the environmental regulations decreasing the particle count, the CO2 increase has been felt over the past few decades.
Now, what that has to do with slowing down the West, that is something that resides in Shorty's fevered imagination. And, quite frankly, I don't really want to go there... |
