re: Glacial melt has tripled in the Amundsen Sea

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nuclear power plants

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Oh, you!

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Indeed, the sun could be on the threshold of a mini-Maunder event right now. Ongoing Solar Cycle 24 is the weakest in more than 50 years. Moreover, there is (controversial) evidence of a long-term weakening trend in the magnetic field strength of sunspots. Matt Penn and William Livingston of the National Solar Observatory predict that by the time Solar Cycle 25 arrives, magnetic fields on the sun will be so weak that few if any sunspots will be formed. Independent lines of research involving helioseismology and surface polar fields tend to support their conclusion.

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Yet the Earth warms....


hmmm.....

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Here we show that over the past 20 years, all the trends in the Sun that could have had an influence on the Earth's climate have been in the opposite direction to that required to explain the observed rise in global mean temperatures.

2007-20=1987

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Here's the dilemma TUba. We are in midst of an ice age. We have solid evidence of ~0.1Ma cyclical climate patterning. We know our climate is currently at interglacial maximum. Those are things we do know.
What we do not know is why.
What is the cause of climate change over time?

We know a set of 9-10 regular cycles traversing a 1Ma period is far more compatible with physical rather than biologic cause. We know that such a pattern is more compatible with regular rather than random events. We (should) know these observations point to extraterrestrial origins of climate variance.

Likewise, we know orbital and axial differentials occur. Some have theorized such differentials account for terrestrial climate cycles (Milankovitch theory). The problem is Milankovitch cycles don't match well with ice core or benthic observations. Cyclical solar variance might. However, as with cause of the ice age itself, we also suffer significant gaps in our knowledge of solar behavior.

One thing is 100% certain though. CO2 greenhouse effects accounting for Quaternary Period climate cycles is a ridiculous premise. It is unsupportable.

NC_TIgah

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We are in midst of an ice age.

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CptBengal

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FACT. Unless we're in an ice age....glaciers are always melting faster than they replenish.

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Hmmmmmm...