Originally Posted by
tableplay
Originally Posted by
accountinquestion
Fossil fuels were created over a process of millions of years. Mankind has taken a large portion of that over the past 100 years and dumped it into the atmosphere via burning. It should not be shocking that scientists believe this also is causing the rapid increase in temperature.
So you're saying that that is the main cause then, rather than non-industrial processes ? You are agreeing that non-industrial processes are capable of heating earth to the extent observed and, at the same time, saying that the current heating is due to Man or not ? Rapid heating has been observed pre-industrially. So much so that the Silurian hypothesis was put forth. I think this hypothesis is far-fetched and that it is much more likely that the rapid heating in ancient times was not due to earlier advanced terrestrial civilizations but due to causes that don't require the presence of an advanced civilization.
I'm not following. The extraction of fossil fuels and the burning of them is an industrial process. The process that created the fossil fuels beforehand is not an industrial process. The fact that it took millions of years to create the fossil fuels in the ground which have then been extracted and burned over the course of a century (roughly) should suggest that it isn't a stretch to think it is causing the issues we are seeing.
I'm not aware of a rapid warming of the Earth to the extent we've seen.
Again, this has all been predicted. That was one hell of a longshot they got right.
If you want to split hairs and have a pointless semantic (?) argument then you could say that existing natural processes contribute to the heating just as much. Meaning that without the pre-existing heating, the additional (manmade) heating would NOT have had the same effect. So, yes, the heat comes from the summation of the sources of heat.
When climate people speak of warming, they are referencing warming on top of the baseline historical temperature. That is what we are talking about. Not the warming that keeps the Earth from approaching 0 degrees (or whatever the temperature is in the void of space).
Just because something is in the realm of possibility does mean it is likely. I'm not sure what non man-made process would have caused this heating outside of solar fluctuations.
It is the end of the Anthropocene, baby. And I feel fiiiiine.