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o_O.Q on 02 April 2019
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SpokenTruth said:
o_O.Q said:
something that i've been wondering about for some time now is that it is known that the planet has gone through repeated cycles of cooling and heating over time
causing various degrees of flooding and ice formation over that time
is the current climate science suggesting that we humans are somehow going to keep the state of he planet constant going forwards?
because obviously at some point in the future the planet will warm up regardless of our impact on it since we've been coming out of an ice age... i'd like to hear some discussion on that

Earth has had many cooling and heating trends in the past.  What separates those trends to this one is the rate of change.

Past trends took thousands to even millions of years to achieve the same type of changes we are currently witnessing in just 200 years.  It simply a much faster rate of change than any previous period.  So the question is why is it changing so fast?  After extensive research for decades, we have concluded that we are the responsible party for that change.

As for the future, it's difficult to determine when 'natural' changes will take place and how long it takes for them to happen because we've altered the natural cycle.    So the previous of 'natural' changes cannot happen independently of our own impact on that change.  The dire implication is that if our impact and the natural cycle coincide and magnify each other...we largely won't survive it. 

"Past trends took thousands to even millions of years to achieve the same type of changes we are currently witnessing in just 200 years. "

can you post a link for this?

"As for the future, it's difficult to determine when 'natural' changes will take place and how long it takes for them to happen because we've altered the natural cycle."

for the other planets as well?

https://www.space.com/33001-mars-ice-age-ending-now.html

"The dire implication is that if our impact and the natural cycle coincide and magnify each other...we largely won't survive it. "

at some point we were not going to survive anyway... this planet for vast stretches of time was uninhabitable and it will become that way again with time