re: #479 Unakite

re: #463 lostlakehiker

Nicely reasoned essay. I would add that glaciers are naturally occurring averagers of temperatures. Their near-universal retreat says something.

Damn Kissy-fest. What the hell is an “averager” of temperature, and what the hell does the “near-universal retreat” of glaciers mean? If they’re retreating now, it means they had to advance at some time in the past. Global Cooling? Guess what! The natural cycles of the earth’s climate occur in periods far longer than one or two generations…oh, f*ck it.

This is not, however, to say that there are not such things as global ecological tipping points. It is also not to say that there are. But, whether there are or not such things, the movie “The Day After Tomorrow” was nevertheless sensationalistic bullshit, because a tipping point in the context of geological time would still appear quite gradual in the context of the life spans of human beings.