The primary reasons why the climate is not heating up faster than it has been include oceanic thermal inertia and industrial negative aerosol forcing.
There is a lot of water in the ocean and there still is loads of ice spread around the world that can cool that water. In the case of oceanic thermal inertia, the good news is that because the oceans are so large, and take so much time to absorb the thermal energy, we are warming more slowly than would otherwise occur. The bad news is that the oceans not only take up heat slowly, the also dissipate heat slowly. So even if we are able to reduce the greenhouse gases in the earth atmosphere to reasonable levels (closer to 300ppm CO2) the thermal inertia of the oceans will still take quite some time to respond and cooling down the earth will take considerable time. On the bright side, We still have some time to get LENR and zero point energy(ZPE) extraction developed and deployed to replace fossil fuel burning before all the ice is gone. Cheers: Axil On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:07 PM, a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net> wrote: > Jed, > I have been following the subject fairly closely. I'm not about to start > yet another discussion on AGW. I've written hundreds of posts on that > already. That the IPCC forecast has been falsified for the average of the > models and most of the individual models you can read about on Lucia's blog > at http://rankexploits.com/**musings/ <http://rankexploits.com/musings/> > I'm not at all sure that global temperature is even a very meaningful > number when you think about it. > > I lean towards what Prof. Syun-Ichi Akasofu writes here: > http://people.iarc.uaf.edu/~**sakasofu/pdf/two_natural_** > components_recent_climate_**change.pdf<http://people.iarc.uaf.edu/~sakasofu/pdf/two_natural_components_recent_climate_change.pdf> > At least his forecast is a lot closer than IPCC's. > >
