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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (14902)12/16/2009 11:38:14 AM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (2) of 86356
 
Sure it has. It has had predictable long term fluctuations over a very long period of time. A process that is in control can have outliers, but the general trend and fluctuations are kept within 3 sigma and natural processes work to keep it that way. An example is that humans inhale air and exhale CO2. Plants use CO2 and emit oxygen. That is an example of a process that has reached some natural trend and equilibrium.

But throw in a new event like a massive volcano eruption, a solar sunspot minimum, or massive man-made CO2 emissions, and you can either create a perturbation, which the earth can absorb and bring back to equilibrium, or you get a new trend that takes the new data points for the foreseeable future outside the upper and lower control limits that were previously established. That is what we're seeing now. It's a process that is out of control and has not reached a new equilibrium point.
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