Moltres wrote on July 24, 2019 at 10:33 PM

Reply to comment by daniel in The U.S. could experience “off-the-charts” heat in under 20 years, thanks to climate change by ziq

Could it be that methane and nitrous oxide are greenhouse gases as well? And that when one increases it creates a feedback loop that also raises the others (and temperature)? Could this be the reason why they correlate with each other across the record?

Why does it hurt so much to think?

daniel wrote on July 24, 2019 at 11:14 PM

The Sun is the primary driver of the climate, trace gases are not. The education system has failed in raising a generation of critical thinkers. The Earth does not revolve around the Sun, it revolves around the gravitational center of the solar system which is influenced by the orbit of the planets. Those planets also have most of the angular momentum of the solar system, their periodic (cyclical) actions influence fluctuations in the activity of the Sun and thus the climate on Earth. The Sun also has internal cyclical mechanisms the manifest in fluctuations in solar activity, which also influence climate on Earth. Space weather and solar angular momentum are much more reliable predictors of climate than are trace gases, which are only useful after the fact.

Moltres wrote on July 25, 2019 at 12:18 AM

Why is earth hotter than the moon?

daniel wrote on July 25, 2019 at 2:31 AM

The moon reaches 260 degrees farenheight in the sunlight, but surely with all the CO2 we're producing on Earth that'll be a cool evening in just a few short years right?

daniel wrote on July 24, 2019 at 10:59 PM

because the data doesn't coincide with that hypothesis. the dissolved trace gases follow the temperature, not the other way around.