Humpty Dumpty Killed Global Warming?

Fortunately, Climate Change is unaffected.

Following the progress of the global population reduction program may be depressing. What better way to take the break and relax than to observe nature? My break of today is observing the world-wide map of volcanos and earthquakes.

“Humpty Dumpty” in the title of my post is the Earth crust consisting of a number of tectonic plates, akin to a cracked egg shell. As of late, these plates try to find a new configuration, resulting in earthquakes and volcano eruptions here and there, and seemingly everywhere (“Volcanoes are erupting, spewing ash on these three continents”, USA Today, 2023.05.22):

As of April 14, 49 volcanoes around the world were in continuing eruption status, according to the Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program. Last week, 24 were in some stage of active eruption, according to the program's latest weekly report.

And if you want to follow global earthquakes, there’s a good source of information as well.

You can even watch live the Popokatepetl volcano eruption spewing ash and greenhouse gasses 10000m high up into the atmosphere:

Luckily, we humans are cutting our emissions just in time to counterbalance that and then some, to prevent overheating of the planet’s atmosphere. So much so that the spring of 2023 in the Northern Hemisphere is definitely way cooler than usual. If we keep it up, and volcanic ash and sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere assists, we’ll be in the next Ice Age in no time.

A study of yearly sediments on the bottom of the Dead Sea indicates that such increased seismic activity has some periodic characteristics, with major seismic events coming about 1300-1500 years apart. The last earthquake in Syria and Turkey severely damaged the walls of a Bysantine castle that were standing intact since the the reign of Byzantine Emperor Justinian (527-565 C.E.):

If you do your math, we are about ripe for another wave of heightened seismic activity. Or are we in it already?

Be as it may, the study of the Dead Sea sediments proves that the timing is hard to predict as there is no strict periodicity in such events. But have a look at the global temperatures in the last 8000 years, based on the Greenland ice core studies:

Comparatively speaking, we are still in the midst of a very cold global climate spell, Al Gore’s “hockey stick” Global Warming notwithstanding. And it may suddenly turn much-much colder.

Yet another more GW-enthusiastic factcheck post from March 2019, “Factcheck: What Greenland ice cores say about past and present climate change” somehow reports the same ice core temps totally differently? (I had no idea factchecking was already the thing in 2019?)

You may want to check that last article for a sleight of hand. But that almost vertical red line up into the hot hell is definitely a bold prediction.

The actual studies of Greenland ice cores provide a temperature record for the past 130,000 years (and more, see below), as you can read in “The anatomy of past abrupt warmings recorded in Greenland ice” (Nature, 2021), pointing to a few dozen abrupt temperature spikes (probably previous human civilizations going cooking themselves alive and dying out):

Looking back at the last 800,000 years:

If anything, more CO2 seems to be preferable to less CO2, in my simple mind, for all forms of life on this planet? But what on Earth was jacking up the CO2 without humans for the last 800,000 years? Or was it the higher temps that were releasing more CO2 into the atmosphere, and as the mollusks were sequestering too much of it from the atmosphere, the things were going off the rails each and every time? Chicken or egg?

The latest Antarctic ice cores provide a temperature record for whopping 2,000,000 years (Nature, 2019), although it’s difficult to find an objective information not tainted with the CO2 hype in the last 20-something years of human existence on this planet.

To top it off, here’s another video link contributed by the reader George in the comments below:

And this is my Zen moment for today.