Walter Hinteler wrote:McGentrix wrote:I was hoping for the typical liberal third degree of this new poster, but apparently they only do that to those that oppose their views.
a) I've only very rarely been the same opinion as High Seas,
b) besides georgeob, she's the only conservative I highly regard.
Thank you for the kind words, Walter!
Okie - no need to apologize, I don't think I know anyone here except Walter so far on this thread; never heard of BernardR, but didn't go back to read 400 pages either. Nor do I see how the past average temperatures for the planet could be a function of political views!
Temperatures for the past billion+ years are shown on the graph I already posted and it's obvious we're at the coldest phase of the range, with renewed warming having only recently started again.
Next: planetary motions, in addition to those involving the entire solar system, are principally 3: orbital eccentricity (between 0.00 and 0.06 every 100,000 years), tilt in the axis of rotation (betw. 22 and 24.5 degrees every 41,000 years), and a wobble of the spin axis every 23,000 years.
How a poster could confuse any of those planetary motions with motions of the lithosphere isn't clear to me, but even looking only at events on the planet's surface we find the correlation of high temperatures with high sea levels to be almost perfect. We're at a historically low sea level period (with so much water locked up in polar ice) which is of course also a historically very cold period, as shown on the previous graph. QED
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ctl/cliscibeyond.html
