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Originally Posted by andyc
Whoopee, another Renato vs science thread 
In this episode, Renato conflates two unrelated research papers in order to cast doubt on the mechanisms within one of them, confusing deep (25-40km) magmatic activity in a small area with no present-day active eruptions, with actual volcanic eruptions. Eruptions apparently large enough to accelerate the flow of a whole ice sheet, not in the area relevant to the paper, only happening recently and somehow completely unobserved! Presumably in Renato's world, volcanoes are accelerating glacier melt everywhere in the world, including Greenland? Though you said it was the Sun last time... Of course in the other paper, it couldn't possibly be the observed ocean warming increasing the flow of ice towards the sea!
Then Renato appears to think that CO2 is an unimportant greenhouse gas, which is a real mystery to all atmospheric physicists since the late 19th Century! As the most important non-condensing greenhouse gas, we fiddle with this temperature control at our peril (what if we remove CO2, Lacis et al 2011) ( CO2 control knob, Alley 2009)
It is once again, Renato vs every relevant science academy on the planet. The answer's simply ABC... Anything But CO2  |
Hi Andy,
You seem to be upset that I posted links to a real scientific paper and a real scientific site, and somehow that makes me "
vs science".
Presumably, you are also upset that the real scientific site shows that the only area of Antarctica where climate change is happeneing, is also coincidentally sitting right on top of part of the Pacific Rim of Fire.
You seem to think magma has nothing to do with volvanos, and presumably are also disputing that Mt. Erebus has been erupting since 1972, and last erupted in 2011.
And you seem to also be upset that Mars is an extremely cold place, instead of a nice hot place like Venus.
Well, that's unfortunate.
Regards,
Renato