Here is another story in New Scientist which argues that volcanic carbon dioxide output has greatly increased in recent years, much higher than it was in past geological ages. (The author makes the mistake of saying atmospheric carbon dioxide is the sole driver of warming and cooling, when it is demonstrably false; some of the coolest periods in Earth's history have had much higher levels of carbon dioxide, such as the

Meanwhile, new research suggests the high North Atlantic Ocean was not so hot during the Miocene, a period with comparable atmospheric carbon dioxide.

If the water was colder than scientists thought during higher carbon dioxide levels why is it a "planetary emergency" now?

Off course we know the Antarctic is gaining ice mass, both land and sea, and havs recorded regard cold numbers in recent years.

The principle researcher of this study said she lived in the Caribbean and saw life struggling during high temperatures. Hmmm. I suspect she didn't consider how that enormous quantity of life in tropical climates would fare if dumped into cold water. A greater variety of life lives in the tropics for just this reason. Life generally likes warmer weather, not colder. Life adapts to colder but in the end if there was no dangerous competition any life form will gravitate to the warmer, richer zones.

Yes, if it's too hot creatures will struggle; they aren't used to it. But we have life forms that exist in boiling hot water in volcanic vents, so it's what you get used to that matters.

So many scientists view the universe through their own experience and do not actually consider their experience may not be typical.

At any rate climate change theory is far, far from "settled" and an honest person would admit that.

I would point out the Eocene was generally warm but, despite atmospheric carbon dioxide DROPPING to 700 to 800 ppm (double what it is today) an ice age began and the planet cooled WAY down at the Eocene/Oligocene despite these still very high carbon dioxide levels. The onset of "icehouse earth" led to an extinction event.

So much of current climate theory is pretending to far more knowledge than scientists actually have, and speculation now informs most research on the subject rather than facts and an open-minded approach to it. We live in an irrational age.

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