What Sir Attenborough Didn't Tell You.

[10ClarionSt]

I have to say I didn't watch the Climate Change Cobblers last night cos this man puts kin years on me with this. He should stick with his brilliant wildlife documentaries. However I did catch a snippet about the Arctic ice melting. He said (not a quote) that in the Arctic, the temperature is rising twice as fast as the global average. The falling of the ice makes it less white, which means it is unable to reflect the Suns' rays to keep it cool. In 1818, Capt. Ross was searching the Arctic for the elusive North West Passage, when he noticed what he thought was the snow bleeding. Closer examination showed it wasn't blood so he took samples and returned them to London for examination. The scientist at that time didn't know what it was and it stayed that way for many years until it was identified as a microbe that feeds off the snow and turns it red/green. NASA has said that currently, 50% of the Arctic is affected by this microbe and they don't know how to stop it. Sir David didn't tell you that because, for some reason, he, the BBC and other organisations, want you to think it's your fault for driving a car; working in a factory; burning a log fire; flying in a plane etc when the reasons are all natural, but people can see an opportunity to make money out of you by trying to scare the tihs out of you. See the link below.
https://www.micropia.nl/en/discover/microbiology/Chlamydomonas-nivalis/

[Togo]

I bet that the "programme" didn't tell the unwary viewer that a research station sitting on a high plateau in Antarctica, had just recorded the coldest winter temperatures since records began in 1957.

[Khandro]

Yes, he's past his sell by date, in fact his carbon footprint through travelling with film crews into some of the remotest places on the planet must by enormous.
This is the founder of Greenpeace's take on what is happening:

[youngmafbog]

There are many pertinent points you are not told.

But hey ho if it doesn't fit the narrative then they will bury it. Impartial my backside.

[choux]

10C - I never thought the day would come when I agreed with one of your posts. My apologies to you and well said.

[rowanwitch]

However C nivalis does not grow quickly enough to have an impact at extremely low temperatures so increased growth now would indicate a rise in polar temperatures outside of normal range. ( It needs to be above 0 degrees ideally over 5 degrees) A one off event as happened in the past is rare but occurs often enough to be recorded but if it's growth is sustained over a period of a few years it would be an indicator that polar average temperatures are rising as predicted by the climate change models.

[10ClarionSt]

Thanks for the replies. There are other natural factors that the money-makers will try and ridicule and discount, eg, Isostatic
Rebound, or Glacial Bounce-Back, which is a geological process caused by the fact that the Earth is still, naturally, warming up as it emerges from the last ice-age. The main force that drives the climate on this planet is the Sun, with it's many variances over millions of years. The time scale is something that we, with our miniscule comparative lifetime, find difficult to grasp, and so look inwards at anything that will justify man-made global warming.

My major concern isn't climate change though. It's plastic pollution and de-forestation. Now, they ARE man-made and we can do something about them.

NASA conducted a survey of all the oceans on the planet and found that every sample they recovered contained microbeads, an ingredient of shower gel. Countires are felling trees at an alarming rate and the Amazon jungle is slowly shrinking. This process adds to pollution by a lot of trees being burned after being felled.

Climate change is natural. Man-made destruction isnt.

[10ClarionSt]

Note for Ab Editor:
Sorry you had to move this OP, but when I posted it, I wasn't sure which category to post it in.

[bobbinwales]

Well the op certainly isn't science although rowanwitch has added some science and sense

[bobbinwales]

But its safe to remain on denial as most on here are over 40 and will be dead before we realise climate change really was an issue. I agree that some only tell one side if the story though but maybe because there well meaning and don't want us to ignore the bigger problem

[1ozzy]

//Climate change is natural. Man-made destruction isnt.//

So with your vast knowledge just how much man-made destruction can nature cope with?