I move here:
VetusLignum wrote:Marc Andre Selosse says that thanks to plowing (and more generally, thanks to carbon emissions), we will avoid the glaciation that awaited us through the cycles of the Holocene. Do you know where he got it from? Because I do not have the feeling that anyone has sufficient elements to affirm this. Did I miss an episode? Sorry for the HS, but this is a subject that concerns me.
For that my bible is "the club of the argonauts"
http://www.clubdesargonautes.org/faq/cy ... iaires.phpYou must have read everything that is written before to understand, Milankovitch ...
Where are we ?
Boreal summer currently occurs when the Earth is near aphelion and the energy it receives from the Sun is at its minimum. In contrast, in winter, it is close to perihelion and the boreal winter is less intense. This is one of the conditions for the establishment of an ice age, and this is what some put forward a few decades ago to minimize the threat of global warming due to carbon dioxide emissions. But the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit is currently weak, and will decrease further over the next few millennia. On the other hand, the obliquity of the Earth's axis of rotation will decrease during the next ten thousand years, tending to decrease the contrast between summer and winter and thus favor relatively cool northern summers. Given these changes in orbital parameters, and pending the next transition from the summer solstice to aphelion, the current interglacial, the Holocene, could therefore be particularly long.
Superimposed on this situation of very slight forcing towards glaciation, a significant change in the composition of the atmosphere due to anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, a change of such magnitude that the risk of to see the ice caps advancing on our agricultural land is repelled to distant orbital configurations.
On the contrary, currently, and in spite of conditions which, without human action, would tend towards cool summers and consequently towards glaciation, the ice cap of the northern hemisphere is shrinking.