Saturday, September 17, 2016

Measurement of Long-Term Climatic Change in California

Gathering the science was via ten-foot samples from the bottom of a California lake and these were integrated for the first time with every other sample study of that nature.  The integration permitted the best view yet of California's weather over the last ten thousand years.  (Science Daily:  Pacific Ocean’s response to greenhouse gases could extend California drought for centuries)

The variable now is increasing greenhouse gas since previously it had been decreasing over a much longer term from a high of maybe three or four times the concentration carbon dioxide is now.  That warning seems clear that it's flipped to increasing and it's nowhere near the upper limit.


The predictions of long-term weather events such as droughts are unfortunate but that comes from the history.  There's inevitable heckling for anything of this nature and it's simply for some forgotten principle but Jason Chaffetz isn't here.

Scientists will almost always be the first harbingers of dangerous things and yet the first reaction is often and as we see now to shout them down.  The shouting isn't motivated by science but sophistry and, hence, the immense frustration of why won't they listen when it will only save them.

California can't endure a drought of a thousand years, it couldn't even go for ten years under those circumstances.


Some things seem intuitive and a global movement of weather implies a global movement of people or someone is going to get his feet wet.  It's mystifying why people argue when there's clear evidence people need to get cracking on it immediately.


Take a look at the paper and review how the scientists made their actual judgment of what they had discovered.  There's no interpretation by any political busy body, it's direct from the source, so see for yourself what you make of it.



Here's one more for the exceptional geological strangeness in measuring a wind which has blown for forty-two million years.  That's almost insane enough for a Moody Blues song with sixty-four billion butterfly sneezes.  (Science Daily:  Westerly winds have blown across central Asia for at least 42 million years)

Who needs Ripley's Believe It or Not.  These scientists do some nutso things but what an extraordinary thing to find.

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