Science Shows Earth is Still Technically In An Ice Age
Earth is still bound to the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, and our planet’s average global temperature still hovers around a very livable 15°C
This is far below the world’s long-term planetary average of 18°C to 24°C – seen throughout most of Earth’s biological history.
It makes the idea of a global warming crisis seem out of sync with reality.
Despite four decades of continuous climate alarmism, roughly ten percent of the Earth’s total land area remains permanently capped by glacial ice, which covers 15 million square kilometers (5.8 million square miles).
That is nearly a third of its extent during the peak of the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000 to 19,000 years ago), when continental ice sheets reached their historical zenith. The Antarctic ice sheet remains the largest and thickest body of ice on the planet, extending up to 4.8 kilometers (about 3 miles) deep.
It holds roughly 90 percent of global ice volume and accounts for 85 percent of total glacial land cover. Spanning 14 million square kilometers (5.4 million square miles), Antarctica alone makes up 8.3 percent of Earth’s total land surface.
A basic geographical reality is often forgotten: land comprises a mere 28 percent of the planet’s surface.
All human cities, towns, and infrastructure combined occupy just one to three percent of that land (while deserts take up 33 percent and forests 31 percent). We live on an ocean world, and waters cover 72 percent of the globe to an average depth of 2.3 miles. Crucially, the oceans hold 86 percent of the global carbon dioxide reservoir and absorb over 90 percent of retained thermal energy.
By contrast, the atmosphere holds a fraction of a percent of each. The oceans—not human industrial activity—serve as the true long-term regulatory engine for atmospheric carbon dioxide and global climate stability.
The current Quaternary Glaciation is part of an ice age cycle that began 34 million years ago with the thermal isolation and glaciation of Antarctica, later intensified by the closure of the Isthmus of Panama and orbital variations (Milankovitch cycles).
Carbon dioxide was not the driver of these immense shifts. All of human civilisation, agriculture and technological progress has unfolded within a brief, warm respite: the Holocene interglacial period, which began just 11,700 years ago.
Yet for 40 years, the narrative has been dominated by a campaign driven by an unaccountable bureaucratic authority—the United Nations—pushing an agenda of global control.
The promised catastrophe of runaway, unprecedented warming never arrived.
source x.com
Jerry Krause
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Hi PSI READERS,
If you actually research what Svante Arrhenius first did you should find that he researched the historical MEASURED TEMPERATURE RECORDS calculate the AVERAGE MEASURED TEMPERATURE of that time. From this calculation of AVERAGE MEASURED WORLD TEMPERATURE he began his speculations.
Have a good day, Jerry
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lloyd
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SO??????
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Charles Higley
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At one of their COP meetings 20+ years ago, one of the key people stated that global warming was not the focus at all, but the goal was de facto redistribution of wealth. CO2 is simply the scapegoat as humans cannot not emit CO2 to survive without going back to the stone age.
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very old white guy
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Golly I said that as well. People really don’t listen.
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