06-09-2017, 09:24 AM
(06-09-2017, 08:29 AM)Hugo Wrote: If all of mankind died today, would the climate cease to change in the future?
In answer to both.
The climate has been changing since the oceans receded and the first single cells "things" crawled onto to dry land.
And the climate would change if mankind died off.
But that's not the point. Forensic climate science suggests that in the past things like the Ice Age and warming trends happened over many centuries. (The exception: When rocks from space hit the planet).
And then, the earths population started exploding and the Industrial Revolution brought the need for energy that only fossil fuel could provide. With now billions of humans in need of this energy, our planet is suffering the effects of stuff in our atmosphere that seems to be changing our climate. And fast!
Or so they tell me. I don't know science from mud wrestling. But I can (and do ) read. And, I'm just bright enough (and no more) to sort and select what the majority of informed and educated folks accept as fact.