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Originally Posted by freebeard
My take is that we're in an interglacial period, and the Earth is a homeostatic system.
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I suppose that Climate scientists would have agreed until they noticed changes occurring on timescales which are unprecedented in Earth's history.
'Interglacial' is technically defined by a certain specific sea level, which has been exceeded now.
The 'cryosphere', which up until recently, has been defined by 'permanent' ice is going away. And it's going away at an accelerating level. Hence the term 'non-linear.'
With the blanket of greenhouse gases, heat which would have otherwise escaped to space, is now trapped.
If you look at Earth from space, it indicates around the same temperature as the moon. That temperature is coming from around 8-miles altitude in the atmosphere.
Below 8-miles it's averaging around 60-F, annually. That's the troposphere, where we live, where 'climate' is.
Earth is no longer the planet man has experienced for millennia.
Like I've said, when you set a fire larger than the Earth itself, somethings bound to happen.