Experimental Blog # 149

Quotations and notes from "The Whole Story of Climate" - What Science Reveals about the Nature of Endless Change by E. Kirsten Peters

" ... most major climate changes in geologically recent times have occurred in a mere twenty or thirty years."
"No full climate crash has occurred in the span of written history."

" ... the Pleistocene ... alternated between long periods of cold - lasting roughly 100,000 years - and short periods of considerably warmer times - lasting about 10,000 years."
"If we think of climate change as our enemy, we will always be defeated."

" ... geologists ... realized that there must be diamond-rich rocks in Canada{in the Barren Lands about two hundred miles northeast of Yellowknife?!} that had sent a few gems thousands of miles to the south{New York, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illionois?!} courtesy of staggering volumes of ice."

" ... from pollen studies all around the world in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, it became abundantly clear to geologists that regional climate changes are always occurring on Earth."
"The Vostock{Antarctica} ice record of 420,000 years covers four great cycles of climate change on Earth."

" .. the jury is still very much out on the idea that relates the history of agriculture to greenhouse gases and global climate."

"On long timescales, increases in temperature, controlled by the Earth's orbit around the sun, create more methane and carbon dioxide. ... from what most scientists can tell, greenhouse gases are not the primary driver of long-term climate change on Earth .."