Alpine glaciers were ice-free 6,000 years ago, long before industrial CO2. Known as the Holocene Thermal Maximum, the period was far warmer than today.
Then, during the Little Ice Age, 1300 to 1850, glaciers advanced dramatically. Villages, farmland, even churches were swallowed by ice.
The glaciers' retreat since 1850 simply marks a return to pre-Little Ice Age conditions, nothing more.
The biggest driver of glacier melt is sunlight. Direct solar radiation causes sublimation - ice turning straight to vapor. And sunshine has been increasing worldwide as cloud cover has declined.
Satellite data confirm more incoming solar energy reaching Earth's surface over the last few decades.
This extra sunlight has resulted in modest melt in the Alps and elsewhere, while also boosting crop growth and photosynthesis.
The real warning sign wouldn't be retreat. It would be sudden advance. Glaciers growing again would mean colder, harsher conditions returning. And history shows that's when life suffers most.
6,000 Chinese foreign nationals at @UofIllinois crowd out spots for native-born Illinois students.
As your governor, I pledge to put Illinois students first. I'll cap the number of foreign nationals that can attend our flagship school.
U of I is a land-grant school meant to protect educational options for everyday Illinoisans. Let's make that a reality again.
Vote for change on March 17th. Vote @TedForIllinois
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These are the words of the first 16 scientists of 46 that have left the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) due to the corruption of science within the organisation.
Dr Robert Balling: The IPCC notes that “No significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected.” This did not appear in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers.
Dr Lucka Bogataj: “Rising levels of airborne carbon dioxide don’t cause global temperatures to rise…. temperature changed first and some 700 years later a change in aerial content of carbon dioxide followed.”
Dr John Christy: “Little known to the public is the fact that most of the scientists involved with the IPCC do not agree that global warming is occurring. Its findings have been consistently misrepresented and/or politicized with each succeeding report.”
Dr Rosa Compagnucci: “Humans have only contributed a few tenths of a degree to warming on Earth. Solar activity is a key driver of climate.”
Dr Richard Courtney: “The empirical evidence strongly indicates that the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis is wrong.”
Dr Judith Curry: “I’m not going to just spout off and endorse the IPCC because I don’t have confidence in the process.”
Dr Robert Davis: “Global temperatures have not been changing as state of the art climate models predicted they would. Not a single mention of satellite temperature observations appears in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers.”
Dr Willem de Lange: “In 1996 the IPCC listed me as one of approximately 3000 “scientists” who agreed that there was a discernible human influence on climate. I didn’t. There is no evidence to support the hypothesis that runaway catastrophic climate change is due to human activities.”
Dr Chris de Freitas: “Government decision-makers should have heard by now that the basis for the long-standing claim that carbon dioxide is a major driver of global climate is being questioned; along with it the hitherto assumed need for costly measures to restrict carbon dioxide emissions. If they have not heard, it is because of the din of global warming hysteria that relies on the logical fallacy of ‘argument from ignorance’ and predictions of computer models.”
Dr Oliver Frauenfeld: “Much more progress is necessary regarding our current understanding of climate and our abilities to model it.”
Dr Peter Dietze: “Using a flawed eddy diffusion model, the IPCC has grossly underestimated the future oceanic carbon dioxide uptake.”
Dr John Everett: “It is time for a reality check. The oceans and coastal zones have been far warmer and colder than is projected in the present scenarios of climate change. I have reviewed the IPCC and more recent scientific literature and believe that there is not a problem with increased acidification, even up to the unlikely levels in the most-used IPCC scenarios.”
Dr Eigil Friis-Christensen: “The IPCC refused to consider the sun’s effect on the Earth’s climate as a topic worthy of investigation. The IPCC conceived its task only as investigating potential human causes of climate change.”
Dr Lee Gerhard: “I never fully accepted or denied the anthropogenic global warming concept until the furore started after NASA’s James Hansen’s wild claims in the late 1980s. I went to the [scientific] literature to study the basis of the claim, starting with first principles. My studies then led me to believe that the claims were false.”
Dr Indur Goklany: “Climate change is unlikely to be the world’s most important environmental problem of the 21st century. There is no signal in the mortality data to indicate increases in the overall frequencies or severities of extreme weather events, despite large increases in the population at risk.”
Dr Vincent Gray: “The [IPCC] climate change statement is an orchestrated litany of lies.”
@BQuillmanQcast I guess Rick changed his mind!?! “Rick Pitino stated that he would not recruit high school players, including top-five-star recruits, because he believes they are not yet experienced enough to win big and that the transfer portal is the better option for immediate impact.”
RIP Charlie Kirk. It doesn’t matter what your opinion is of Charlie or his politics if you don’t view this as one of the darkest days in American history than you are part of the problem.
Hug your kids tonight and tomorrow morning wake up more committed than you have ever been in your life to speak truth and defend free speech from those who are willing to kill to stop ideas they don’t like. Evil is real, we must beat it:
I see all the posts of vile piece of shit leftists celebrating Charlie’s death. I’m disgusted by it. But also I see it as a great tribute to Charlie’s life and work. May we all be so successful and effective that our enemies celebrate when we die. May we all be so devastating to the Leftist project that they pray to their demon gods for our demise.
In Sri Lanka, the government forced the entire country to go organic. The result: Rice production fell by 20% in just the first 6 months. And exports of tea fell to the lowest levels in nearly a quarter-century. https://t.co/WOWdxPXrvg
The ultimate form of selfishness is not talking to your teammates defensively on the Court !
Late talk is like no talk.
A quiet team loses energy fast and gets tired quick.