The NYT narrative is that corals are incapable of surviving the modest warming projected this century. But both history and peer-reviewed science show otherwise
Tag: Holocene Climatic Optimum
Holocene Climate Change In The Arctic
… illustrates how temperatures plunged around 3000 years ago, and notably since the Middle Ages:
Past and Present Warming – A Temporal Resolution Issue
By Renee Hannon Christian Freuer has translated this post into German here. This post examines how present global surface temperatures compare to the past 12,000 years during the Holocene interglacial. The…
Claim: Important climate change mystery solved by scientists
The long-standing mystery is called the “Holocene temperature conundrum,” with some skeptics contending that climate model predictions of future warming must be wrong. The scientists say their findings will challenge…
A Geological Perspective of Polar Bears
Guest “geological perspective” by David Middleton A Popular Narrative Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are the poster child for the impacts of climate change on species, and justifiably so. To date,…
The truth about 'We have to get rid of the medieval warm period'
In the thread Intelligence and the hockey stick commenter “Robert” challenged a well known quote about the MWP from 2006 by Dr. David Deming in his statement before the Senate EPW…
The age old battle of the thermostat – the 'Goredian' Knot of global temperature
People send me stuff. Reader Kurt writes: I just found your excellent website and have book marked it and will visit it often for updates. One simple question the global…
On certainty: Truth is the Daughter of Time
This comment from Dr. Robert Brown at Duke University is elevated from a comment to a full post for further discussion. Since we have a new paper (Shepherd et al)…
A response to Dr. Paul Bain's use of 'denier' in the scientific literature
Note: This will be the top post for a day or two, new posts will appear below this one. Readers may recall my original post, Nature’s ugly decision: ‘Deniers’ enters…
More Glacial Junk Science Journalism
[Note: this post (and a few others) was lost in WordPress, and I had no notification of its existence. While a bit dated, it is still valid – note to…
Dusting for Fingerprints in the Holocene
Guest Post by David Middleton Fingerprints are admissible evidence in criminal trials because of their uniqueness. The probability of two human beings having identical fingerprints is very low. Measurements of…
"The end for small glaciers" or anthropogenic circular reasoning?
Guest Post by David Middleton Breathtaking news from Nature… Published online 9 January 2011 | Nature News The end for small glaciers IPCC estimates of sea level rise corroborated, but…
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