The One and Only Climate Change thread...

[Paul Beckwith]

Please use this thread only for this topic; and perhaps Larry will not lock it since it brings heavy traffic to the site...

Climate change is alive and well; the most important indicators of this are the exponential rise in CO2 atmospheric concentrations and ocean concentration (leading to increase in ocean acidity).

Global warming? What about the wacky weather in Europe (record snowfalls, cold), record snowfall in South Korea, storm surges in Eastern Canada. Climate change is expected to cause more extreme weather events, including snow in places it normally does not fall. If the heat transfer mechanisms from the equator to the poles is reduced (ocean currents primary transport pathway followed by air movement), then we could get a global temperature rise but colder polar temperatures.

My view is that Global Warming (due to increased greenhouse gas concentrations) is battling with cooling from abnormally low sunspot activity at the moment.