* Posts by mike.f

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Antarctic ice at all time high: We have more to learn, says boffin

mike.f

What is the Earth doing?

I think a problem with the way climate change predictions are done is that they do not take into account what the Earth itself is doing. I'm not talking about some kind of Gaia-type conciousness, but the Earth as a dynamic system that reacts to changes.

We know about the effect of ocean currents in the Atlantic, in fact we depend on them to keep North America and Europe temperate. But we know so little about other ocean currents, or even why they are there at all! Recent news was about "Sea Monkeys" and their possible effect on large ocean currents: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/pof2/26/10/10.1063/1.4895655

Researcher's surprise over the increase in sea ice just underscores their lack of an accurate model of the planet, if such a model is possible.

But I think we are in for more surprises as time goes on... the planet is dynamic.