Guest re-blogging by David Middleton
From No Tricks Zone:
The paper:
Lüning, S., M. Gałka, F. Vahrenholt (2019): The Medieval Climate Anomaly in Antarctica. Palaeogeogr., Palaeoclimatol., Palaeoecol., doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109251
The full paper can be downloaded here: The Medieval Climate Anomaly in Antarctica.
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Antarctica is not a continent,but an ice ring ,and the Sun determines climate change,not man. 7 previous ice ages according to ‘science’ was man responsible? It is also silly to believe man can stop climate change, seems more like a way to control people with more taxes, regulation and loss of freedoms.
Antarctica is a continent and its migration into the south polar region is the primary reason Earth has been in a geological ice age since the Early Oligocene.
Lots of things affect climate change, primarily plate tectonics. Man’s activities are a small contribution to a much larger process.
I don’t think “plate tectonics” has anything to do with this:
Are you allergic to context?
Oh, Hockey Sticks.
So sick of this issue and the harm it has done to the younger generations. The earth has been warming for tens of thousands of years since the end of the LAST Ice Age. Evidence abounds that the planet has been Water World and an Ice Cube many times over. The left has seized upon a natural phenomena to justify it’s capitalist killing agenda. Get the rest of the world up to western standards of emissions and environmental stewardship before focusing exclusively on us. I can’t get a straw in a restaurant even though our straws don’t end up in the ocean. It is Chinese dumping that is responsible. Take their straws away!
Demand Penguin reparations !!!
Another nail in the coffin for, only Greenland was warm 1000 years ago. That’s what I’ve heard university educated people insist, that everywhere surrounding the Greenland Vikings was freezing. They offer no mechanism for retaining the heat in Greenland while the rest of the N. Hemisphere was cold, they can’t accept their religious upbringing was wrong. Make no mistake, it is their religion, Christianity was abolished for them as a choice before they were born. It’s only people from older generations that remember going to church as children, with a few exceptions. I used to wonder what it was like for the older people living in Rome, living through the period before and after the fall, when all those Roman ruins we see went from being in regular use to complete abandonment. If your older like me, you can see it happening with local churches, or maybe if your an older person who was born in Detroit you’ve seen it with a whole city.
People of an older generation can also remember the last climate “emergency” in the 1970’s, how the Earth was going into a new Ice Age. That was a lie, just like CAGW.
There was no climate “emergency” in the 1970’s – that is a lie.
You’re quite correct – there was no climate “emergency” in the 1970’s, just as there isn’t one today. There was, however, a big scare about global cooling. I was there and I remember it very well.
Unfortunately for you, there are hundreds of newspaper articles from that time on the impending global cooling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKTEIDH_qfU
I earned my degree in geology (Earth Science) in frigid Connecticut during That 70’s Climate Crisis Show. This was very real…
1974 TIME magazine article…
The full text of the article can be accessed through Steve Goddard’s Real Science.
There’s also Newsweek…
Dan Gainor compiled a great timeline of media alarmism (both warming and cooling) in his Fire and Ice essay.
This 1975 magazine cover and article were very real…
Energy and Climate: Studies in Geophysics was a 1977 National Academies publication. It featured what appears to be the same temperature graph, clearly demonstrating a mid-20th century cooling trend…
The mid-20th Century cooling trend is clearly present in the instrumental record, at least in the northern hemisphere…
According to the models Gorebal Warming saved us from The Ice Age Cometh…
https://youtu.be/L_861us8D9M
So, why are the warmists so obsessed with denying this? Is the mid-20th century cooling period so “inconvenient” that it has to be erased from history like the Medieval Warm Period?
Historical geology…
Meteorology…
Physical geography…
David Middleton: Thank you for rubbing Loydo’s nose in his lies.
There has been a determined and concerted effort to erase the Great Cooling Scare of the 1970’s from the Internet.
Back then, there were only a handful of PhD’s writing papers about contemporaneous climate change. There really was no consensus. There was an active debate about which might have a greater affect on temperatures:
1. Cooling due to anthropogenic aerosols.
2. Warming due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.
The fact that the 1970’s were the end of a 35 year cooling period made global cooling the headline.
There’s no climate “emergency” now either… this fake crisis saved us from that fake crisis…
The only thing separating us from “The Ice Age Cometh” is the warming they say can only be explained by CO2.
Loydo, you are either trying to gaslight us, or you are fairly young, and do not remember the 1970’s. Ice age cometh, all the time.
The Climate Alarmists made the transition from an impending ice age which didn’t happen forty years ago to rising oceans and desertification of habitable areas which didn’t happen by their “end times” predictions either so they should have no problem going back to impending ice age if things keep cooling off. Like the Heaven’s Gate fanatics, if the world doesn’t end on the scheduled date, reset the date. They, of course, ultimately resolved the problem to everyone’s satisfaction and relief.
As a matter of fact… this fake crisis saved us from that fake crisis…
The only thing separating us from “The Ice Age Cometh” is the warming they say can only be explained by CO2.
Imagine if, I dont know, there is an actual reason why the temperature raised a thousand years ago. Lets say, with a meteor that released CO2 into the atmosphere, or
perhaps a large volcano. You all are so quick to deny antheopogenic climate change just based on the fact that the earth has experienced fluctuations in temperature in the past, without actually asking whether there was a cause to these temperature fluctuations in the past.
It has been proven that a large meteor or a large volcano can cause these types of temperature fluctuations.
If you examine the relevant data, it shows there is a strong correlation between measurable CO2 and methane output with current temperature increase. This is the only relevant fact.
This isnt rocket science people.
Love the misinformation on this website. A quote from one of the authors of the paper :
I don’t want anyone to leave thinking that this is evidence that CO2 doesn’t affect climate,” Stott cautioned. “It does, but the important point is that CO2 is not the beginning and end of climate change.” […] “In addition, the authors’ model showed how changed ocean conditions may have been responsible for the release of CO2 from the ocean into the atmosphere, also accelerating the warming.”
“The outgassing of this significant greenhouse gas [CO2], then contributed to warming globally.”
“That warmed things up locally and shrank the sea ice back toward Antarctica, uncapping the Southern Ocean and freeing much of its carbon dioxide to begin warming the whole world.”
We’re experiencing a polar shift. It isn’t man destroying our planet, but rather our planet going through a gradual process. As scientists are aware, poles are rapidly moving. As this happens, the planet’s Ozone weakens. A weaker Ozone lets in more UV rays, which cause glacial melt, higher cancer rates, and etc.
Eventually our poles will settle, the Ozone will strengthen significantly, and our planet will cool down a lot (another possible ice age of the many Earth has already experienced).
The process takes hundreds to thousands of years, while the human attention span is lucky to last longer than a week. Which is why we keep freaking out about the end of the world…
Relax. Our planet will be fine. In the meantime, focus on surviving through the intense temperature fluctuations that we’ll be enduring.
Eh… before we all get excited..
This report is due on 15 October 2019.
Why are we worrying about it already?
Iam new to this fantastic site and as an uneducated, knuckle dragging prison guard I would like to say THANK you gents for the enlightenment and entertainment!
It’s nice to have the last word !