Grand Solar Minimum?
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@nunatax said in Grand Solar Minimum?:
Another perspective:
https://climate.nasa.gov/blog/2953/there-is-no-impending-mini-ice-age/And I don’t know why it keeps being difficult for some to see that we in fact can and are affecting our climate through the use of fossil fuels.
Instead, the same kind of arguments that have been addressed over and over, just keep being repeated.
Of course the sun can affect climate. The energy from the sun is kind of a vital parameter in climate models... the question is of course, to what extent it currently causes changes (as compared to other factors) at the level of fluctuations that we reasonably expect. Sure, the sun could suddenly fry us or make us freeze to death on its own, but that’s not an expected scenario any time soon...
Global warming on Mars? Not sure if it happens... If it does happen now or did sometime in the past, so what?
All our heat comes from the sun. Of course! Most of it anyway. Who denies that? What’s the point of this, though? Now that we are talking about planets, why is Venus so much hotter than Mercury even though the latter is much closer to the sun?
Of course plants need CO2. Who denies that? Not sure what the point of that argument is, though...
Global warming on mars is old news.
I assume NPR will meet with your approval....
You're so busy making excuses you're missing the points made. For one, the don't eat the paper bag crowd insist that the sun has little to do with climate change, and it's 99% due to fossil fuels. They insist that CO2 is the cause, and is a harmful gas. The point about plants needing CO2 should be easy enough for you to understand. Reduce it too much and plants won't grow. Our oxygen comes from plants. Reduce CO2 too much and you will end up reducing oxygen.
All in all, your argument seems to consist of just feeling some sort of need to argue.
