Fires in Tasmania linked to climate change

[bob10]

Tassie fires linked to human-induced climate change, study finds - Science - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-24/study-links-tassie-fires-to-human-induced-climate-change/7193830)

[bob10]

Global satellite map highlights sensitivity of Australia's plants to changes in rainfall and temperature - Science - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-18/global-map-highlights-sensitivity-of-australian-vegetation/7178164)

[Xsile]

People will believe anything in this day and age. Weather recording has only been happening for the last hundred years and we are yet to discover cycles in the earth's weather system that may take hundreds of year to show themselves. I can't wait to see when we go through a cold cycle and people loose their ****.

[bob10]

People will believe anything in this day and age. Weather recording has only been happening for the last hundred years and we are yet to discover cycles in the earth's weather system that may take hundreds of year to show themselves. I can't wait to see when we go through a cold cycle and people loose their ****.

Do you really believe that?

[Eevo]

damn those fires in Tasmania causing climate change.

[gusthedog]

People will believe anything in this day and age. Weather recording has only been happening for the last hundred years and we are yet to discover cycles in the earth's weather system that may take hundreds of year to show themselves. I can't wait to see when we go through a cold cycle and people loose their ****.

They can take core samples from ice and detect the most minute changes in climate over many thousands of years. There are also geological tests. Fact: the world has never heated so quickly in the last few billion years as it has in the last 100.

Pricey

[Eevo]

What about 3.14159 billions years ago during the second centuary? How much did the temperature rise then?

[gusthedog]

What about 3.14159 billions years ago during the second centuary? How much did the temperature rise then?

I was exaggerating for effect :p. A billion years is probably a bit much. How's 800,000 years? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_core

EPICA project
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Project_for_Ice_Coring_in_Antarctica

Current rate of heating is 10 times faster and predicted to rise up to 20 times faster than has occurred in the past million years.
http://m.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/page3.php

Pricey

[bob10]

As explained in the article, this is not so much about temperature rise, but more about climate change, bought about in part by depletion of the ozone layer. Scientists have been studying charcoal deposits that date back 1,000 years.