The stupid, it burns. OTOH, he’s with Gore and Hansen and there’s press with him, so maybe he’s just being sociable . Get a load of this from Richard Branson’s blog, CO2 can apparently contradict solar forcing due to the Earth’s precession wobble and orbit:
Here’s the money quote:
The good news is we now know how to heat up the world. We just release an excess of carbon into it. So any time we’re heading to an ice age again that is what we can do to stop it.
Yeah, sure, that’ll go over well with the people that think Branson, Gore, and Hansen are heroes. And walking from Scotland to North Africa? Really?
But I agree with Sir Richard on one point; warmth is far preferable to an ice sheet. You can’t dodge ice sheets but you can take steps to stay cool.
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From Article: “The bad news is that we’re are in danger of releasing so much carbon that we could fry our beautiful earth and our great-grandchildren too. ”
http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/images/co2-levels-over-time_thumb.png
Go back around 500+ Million years and the CO2 level was about 7,000 PPM; oddly enough, the Earth didn’t fry to a crisp back then.
I have never been religious but this Antarctica escapade reminds me of an old saying:-
“If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at those he gives it to. “
Somehow seems apt.
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Oh boy, he’s really flipped out this time, I can buy islands, I can put people into space, I can make poor people pay more taxes, I can stop global warming, I can stop global cooling, I can control world weather, the Messiah complex in action.
READ CAREFULLY:
Furthermore, 10,000 years ago we were in the warmer Holocene. Give it up!
I thought we were still in an ice age. We just happen to be in an interglacial period.
Jimbo, when LazyTeenager said “Depends on how you parse the original sentence” he obviously meant “Depends on which words you ignore in the original sentence.”
Mark
@SNIP: Sorry if I my commentary had to be snipped. I just could not help laughing. Recently, in my country, there has been a rally in favor of saving “water”, as it is supposed that it will disappear by “global warming”. The funny thing is that the rally was literally flooded by rains, as if nature itself wanted to make them a joke. Sometimes nature has a special sense of humor. Let us see what happens this time.
I am going to start my car and run it in my garage for the next 3 months to make more C02 too warm up sydney as we are having the coldest summer for 30 years
Is there any way to add those Milankovitch Cycles to form one curve, the movements of which would give a better picture of how they relate to the glacial stages?
MrX says:
February 1, 2012 at 5:45 pm
Bingo. And it will take a lot more than a little CO2 to change the modus operandi which has put this Earth through a deep freeze cycle up to 50 times in the last 5 million years.
Some people think they’re so important and all-powerful they can change the times and seasons–and since Daylight Savings Time was invented they can obviously start adjusting and controlling megaclimate cycles like Ice Ages and Interglacials.
Astounding! Simply astounding!
“Greg Cavanagh says:
February 1, 2012 at 4:37 pm
It realy scares me when they say things like “The world will never have another ice age”.
It scares me too.
DO WE really want another ice age?
Now we’ll be really in for mass starvation and mass extinction then. Far worse than the grossly exaggerated tripe a few degrees of warming is suppossed to do according to the CO2 AGW/CC Global Warming mass extinction propaganda claims!
Clearly they are in the Antarctic Peninsula where there is some local warming, despite the other 90%+ of the continent cooling. That is what they will use to represent the entire continent and the media will suck it up and spew it to the world! You are warned!
Sir Richard Branson goes full on stupid in Antarctica
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Robert of Ottawa says:
February 1, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Avoiding the next Ice Age would be the best thing we could do, believe you me–it ranks right up there with avoiding a nuclear winter. However, unlike those examples, an Ice Age last 100,000 years and would be about as devastating as an Armageddon asteroid.
GeoLurking:
“?Is he flipping stoned? La Gomera is about 12 million years old. It didn’t even exist in the Tertiary Period. The only Jurassic thing about the Canary Islands is the few kilometer thick Jurassic era sediment that the islands erupted through and then formed on top of.”
The Tertiary extended to the Quarternary, which began with the Pleistocene only 1.8 m.a.
You lost me when you brought the Jurassic into the discussion. How is that relevant to the Teriary? Confused.
Tom
The terminology “ice age” is open to misinterpretation. I wish this WUWT site (in the interests of being seen as having a desire for accuracy) would just refer to glaciation – the last maximum being 20,000 years ago: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070801173805.htm
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“And walking from Scotland to North Africa? Really?”
Perhaps it was meant as “Northumbria”, but automatic spelling interfered. 🙂
Maybe I’m just cantankerous tonight, but I’m getting fed up with Paleohistory plots that put TODAY on the LEFT of the X-Axis and go BACKWARD in time to the right.
Al ‘D’ Gore is a has-been now resting on past good luck handed down from his father, the Tennesee senator and a ‘D’ in his only collegiate science class. ‘Sir’ Richard (has-been) Branson, resting on his taxed contribution to the English empire from exploiting ignorant youths’ abilities to get in trouble with heroine and bad music, and ‘global warming eremite-hasbeen Jim Hansen, all banded together for the purpose of creating a crowd of ill-prepared hasbeens around the queen lizard, who hopes this ruse to deflect some of the ugly will be of benefit to her efforts to project strength and wisdom instead of the universal bliss to come from her and her progeny fading into the mediocrity they so richly deserve.
From the conclusions of http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/30/the-antithesis/
Sole, Turiel and Llebot writing in Physics Letters A (366 [2007] 184–189) identified three classes of D-O oscillations in the Greenland GISP2 ice cores A (brief), B (medium) and C (long), reflecting the speed at which the warming relaxes back to the cold glacial state:
“In this work ice-core CO2 time evolution in the period going from 20 to 60 kyr BP [15] has been qualitatively compared to our temperature cycles, according to the class they belong to. It can be observed in Fig. 6 that class A cycles are completely unrelated to changes in CO2 concentration. We have observed some correlation between B and C cycles and CO2 concentration, but of the opposite sign to the one expected: maxima in atmospheric CO2 concentration tend to correspond to the middle part or the end the cooling period. The role of CO2 in the oscillation phenomena seems to be more related to extend the duration of the cooling phase than to trigger warming. This could explain why cycles not coincident in time with maxima of CO2 (A cycles) rapidly decay back to the cold state. ”
“Nor CO2 concentration either the astronomical cycle change the way in which the warming phase takes place. The coincidence in this phase is strong among all the characterized cycles; also, we have been able to recognize the presence of a similar warming phase in the early stages of the transition from glacial to interglacial age. Our analysis of the warming phase seems to indicate a universal triggering mechanism, what has been related with the possible existence of stochastic resonance [1,13, 21]. It has also been argued that a possible cause for the repetitive sequence of D/O events could be found in the change in the thermohaline Atlantic circulation [2,8,22,25]. However, a cause for this regular arrangement of cycles, together with a justification on the abruptness of the warming phase, is still absent in the scientific literature.”
In their work, at least 13 of the 24 D-O oscillations (indeed other workers suggest the same for them all), CO2 was not the agent provocateur of the warmings but served to ameliorate the relaxation back to the cold glacial state, something which might have import whenever we finally do reach the end Holocene. Instead of triggering the abrupt warmings it appears to function as somewhat of a climate “security blanket”, if you will.
Therefore in constructing the antithesis, and taking into consideration the precautionary principle, we are left to ponder if reducing CO2’s concentration in the late Holocene atmosphere might actually be the wrong thing to do.
The possibility consequently exists that at perhaps precisely the right moment near the end-Holocene, the latest iteration of the genus Homo unwittingly stumbled on the correct atmospheric GHG recipe to perhaps ease or delay the transition into the next glacial. Under the antithesis “Skeptics” and “Warmists” thus find themselves on the mutual, chaotic climate ground where the efficacy of CO2 as a GHG had better be right.
The Space Shuttle and Richard Branson are proof that all it takes to make bricks/pigs fly is sufficient money. Preferably, somebody else’s.
Those photos of penguins and seals on the on the rocks in the Antactica trying to prove Global Warming is another Typical Al Gore Style Global Warming Scam.
There’s parts of the Antarctic Peninsular which are naturaly very rocky and Penquins and seals are doing what penquins and seals do. One such place is Rocky Beach. NO Proof of Global Warming. Just typical summer in parts of the Antarctica!.
steveta_uk says:
February 1, 2012 at 9:54 am
“My area of southern England is littered with gravel pits – as Richard Branson was almost certainly told when he was at school in southern England,”
Branson was educated at Scaitcliffe School (now Bishopsgate School) until the age of thirteen. He then attended Stowe School until the age of sixteen. Branson has dyslexia and had poor academic performance as a student.
He just did not understand the lesson Syeveta! Still, he has made a few bob since though he appears to still not listen to real people!