On 9 March 2014 06:43, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 2:38 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > And 600 million years ago solar radiance was about 4% less >> > > And during the Carboniferous era 359 million years ago the solar radiation > was about 3% less than it is now but that didn't stop the average > temperature on Earth being a massive 18 degrees warmer than now. And > during the early Carboniferous there was 1500 ppm of carbon dioxide in > the air, about a third what it was during the Ordovician which was in a > huge ice age. And during the late Carboniferous there was only 350 ppm, > slightly less than what it is today, and yet it was still hot as hell. > Apparently climate is just a tad more complicated than what some would have > you believe. >
...is not an argument that everything will be just fine if we simply ignore the effects of pollution. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
