Some ancient climate 'news.'

[Maxmars]

After analyzing ice samples that were reported to be millions of years old...

Many "popularized" assumptions about "climate change" have lost some of their "punch."

This first article.... Two million-year-old ice cores provide first direct observations of an ancient climate is telling of 2019 opens with a narrative ultimately to support the existing paradigm... that man can "do" something to alter planetary climate processes.
 

Princeton University-led researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old ice cores from Antarctica that provide the first direct observations of Earth’s climate at a time when the furred early ancestors of modern humans still roamed.

Stating that ...

“To say that carbon dioxide is not a factor would be completely wrong,” Bender said. “During the 40,000- and 100,0000-year glacial-interglacial cycles, temperature and global ice volume tracks carbon dioxide rather closely. Carbon dioxide changes are required to get from the cooler glacial temperatures to the warmer interglacial temperatures.”

The questions in the article seem evoked from a need to be certain that the thing we have been beating ourselves up about every day - CO2 - and methane ARE the "whole story" when it comes to "climate change" as the continuous message pretty much implies... hence "climate change" is something "mankind" can mitigate.

And now... What Antarctic Ice Has Been Holding for Three Million Years (March, 2026)

Which offers the following "key points."

• Ice cores from Allan Hills provide insights into atmospheric conditions 3.1 million years ago, revealing minimal changes in CO2 and methane during critical climate transitions.
  
• The research shows that ocean heat and circulation patterns also changed, indicating factors beyond CO2 impacted ice age intensification.
  
• Key hypotheses suggest ice sheet reflectivity, ocean circulation shifts, and vegetation changes contributed to climate shifts, narrowing the focus beyond greenhouse gases.
  
• While the Allan Hills cores are fragmented and complex, they represent a significant advance in understanding ancient climates.
  
• Researchers aim to extend the records at Allan Hills even further, potentially revealing insights from the last warm period before ice ages began.
  

Which appears to me to be a far cry from "It affirms it's all about CO2 from mankind! And that's that!"

Now dump trillions into "pockets" who will "help" nature ... because of their virtue words, of course.

I suspect it was always about something other than "the environment" because that's how it always manifests with 'marketing narratives.'  This "carbon credit" thing reeks of globalist scam, soup to nuts.... or, so I hear... no?  How many billionaires later are we seeing that this was as "science fact-filled" as the 70's "coming ice age" scare... which may have been a "test-marketing effort."

I wish the activists would stop "marketing science" because it's almost never "real."

The irksome commenter in the first article seemed such a 'tool of conformity'... "Carbon dioxide is the important part of 'our' particular climate change situation!"

I wonder at who is going to incorporate "who's" utterances in the activist world of media.

[quintessentone]

Volcanic activity may explain the discrepancies.

"Volcanic activity 2 million years ago was significantly more impactful in terms of CO₂ emissions than today's human activities, but today’s human emissions far exceed any typical volcanic output. 

• Around 2 million years ago, the Yellowstone caldera eruption—a massive super-eruption—released an enormous amount of CO₂.  While exact figures are uncertain, such events are estimated to have emitted carbon on a scale comparable to all human CO₂ emissions over the entire 21st century, assuming a 2°C global temperature rise.
  
• In contrast, current annual human CO₂ emissions (around 36.3 billion tonnes in 2021) are 135 times greater than the average annual volcanic CO₂ output (about 0.26 gigatons).  Even the largest volcanic eruptions today, like Mount St. Helens or Pinatubo, only match human emissions for a few hours. 
  
• Key point: While ancient super-eruptions like those at Yellowstone or Toba (74,000 years ago) released vast amounts of CO₂ over short periods, they were extremely rare.  Today, human activities release CO₂ continuously and at a rate that dwarfs even these ancient events. 
  
• Long-term context: Over geologic time, volcanic CO₂ has played a major role in climate change—such as during the end-Triassic extinction (~201 million years ago) and the PETM (~56 million years ago). However, today’s human emissions are now the dominant driver of rising atmospheric CO₂, far surpassing natural volcanic contributions."
  

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2017/...rming.page

[David64]

I'm no genius, but maybe they should stop cutting down all the tress and clearing rainforests. Estimates range from 10,000 to 200,000 acres per day are cut down in the Amazon. That's a football field every minute.

Trees LOVE co2 and gobble it by the ton and in turn produce that stuff we're so addicted to...oxygen.

More trees - less CO2 - less heat getting trapped.

Like I said, I'm no Einstein, but even I can figure that one out.