re: #487 ludwigvanquixote

Hmmm something odd happened with my comment… I shall try again.

No one is denying that there have been cycles of warming or cooling in the past. The assertion is that we are influencing the cycle. How can you claim that the things that I have mentioned would have no effect in the present? The best models we have indicate that is does make a difference and common sense should indicate that if you change the bioshphere enough things will change in at least some way.

The question is how much?

So please, without anger tell me why these things have no effect?

I responded earlier and may have had an attitude. I apologize, and it’s a fair question. Part of my response would be that school here (in eastern Virginia) was canceled a couple of weeks ago because the meteorologists were forecasting snow. My wife took a day off from work to stay home with the kids and, guess what, no snow. The local government made a decision that affected thousands of families in this area based on a weather forecast of snow (in the wintertime no less) made only one day ahead. If the models and forecasts are that inaccurate only one day ahead, I respectfully acknowledge that I have very little confidence in models that are claiming to predict climate patterns and trends decades into the future.