Subj : Re: Forget a hosepipe ban
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Sun Aug 24 2025 09:11 am

RM>> The world has had a lot more years (twice as many) without polar
  >> ice caps as with them and 4000 years ago they could grow crops
  >> in England that it is now too Cold to grow..

RM>> Global warming or natural correction?

MP>The best explanation I have seen was on a PBS special a few years back.
  >They looked at how the northern regions of Canada, currently mostly frozen,
  >were once rich with plant life.  They were quick to point out that this was
  >the case while these lands were mostly in their current position, and not
  >from back before the continents shifted to where they are now.

Also, about 11,000 years ago the Saudi Desert used to be a lush
green land with many lakes and rivers. Things change..
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I got distracted yesterday but meant to add to my reply to this message
that it is also much more likely that Climate Change / Global Warming
is just a cycle that the sun goes through every few thousand years.

It's hard to believe / keep in mind that the violent storms and
changes in climate incl., droughts, floods and such are the result
of very tiny changes in the world mean temperature. Looking for exact
numbers online I saw one site saying that the world average temperature
has only gone up by 1.8F degrees in the past 145 years. Even the EPA
itself claims a temperature increase in the USA of only 1.7F degrees
in the past 100 years, and they say the USA is actually warming faster
than the rest of the world, one assumes due to industrial waste heat.

So, it's not the temperature change causing all the problems, it
is the weather systems and altering Jet Stream that is moving
weather (Climate) from one area to another.

To add to all that, once/if the permafrost melts completely it will
release a lot of methane gas that's been trapped under the ice for
hundreds of years (from those old grasslands that got buried there)
which will add a lot more carbon to the air in a hurry unless things
decide to cool off again.

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