Chronology Current Month Current Thread Current Date
[Year List] [Month List (current year)] [Date Index] [Thread Index] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Prev] [Date Next]

Re: [Phys-l] Climate skeptic convinced by data. Was: Re: Mike Mann _The hockey



A sl. correction:

On 2012, Feb 18, , at 15:15, Hugh Haskell wrote:

At 3:59 PM -0500 2/18/12, Anthony Lapinski wrote:
But
since the main cause of global warming is the Sun, then these laws are
really meaningless.

The problem here is that the total effect of the
sun on the earth's overall temperature is being
conflated with the marginal effect of other
influences.

The sun is responsible for the fact that the
earth is not a ball of ice (also, due in part to
the residual heat from the earth's formation and
the heat released by the radioactivity within the
earth).

Lord Kelvin convinced me (as if I was a contemporary) that (assuming uniformitarianism) no evolution, as that "heat" would be long gone.

This, incidentally, is a prob. in a math. text I have.

So radioactive heat the only internal source. (Tidal very minor.)



But once that equilibrium is reached (or
approximately reached), other, smaller effects
can certainly have effects of the magnitude that
we see today.


much cut

bc