Reply To: Shock treated nanocrystalline copper allows reduced anode radius

[Frenetic]

Rezwan wrote:

It would be nice if humanity could leverage the global warming crisis to learn how to regulate global temperature and keep it at a nice, net-life sustaining temperature for millions of years, rather than the paltry 20,000 we get between ice ages.

Am I off the deep end here?

I am inclined to say yes, simply because we are talking about a very large system with an enormous amount of momentum and we are unable to make weather forecasts that are good for more than about a week.

Rezwan wrote: Back to the practicalities: It’s all about timing. If that freshwater falls into the ocean and shuts off the current, well, they say that it takes 2 years without snow melting to form a glacier, and only 10 to launch an ice age. So, from the time Greenland spills into the sea, we have 2-10 years.

I am not convinced that this ever happened. A careful examination of pilots’ “rutters”, et cetera seems in order here and I haven’t heard anything about these guys having done any such thing. When did the weather fend off the Spanish Armada for the English? Why did the Spaniards, then among the greatest of sailors, have so much trouble sailing around England? Yep, the Gulf Stream.