July 27, 2019
Another Fake Global Warming Claim
Timothy Birdnow
More global warming horse poo.
From Livescience:
First, why go back 2000 years? In point of fact we have been moving out of an ice age for the past ten thousand, so if it is warmer that should not surprise anyone. But it's also demonstrably false; a look at the ebb and flow of civilization tells us the Medieval Warming Period was worldwide, and the little Ice Age likewise.
During the Medieval Warming Period you had the rise of numerous civilizations, and the expansion of others. You had the Mongols swept out of the Gobi and conquer much of the world. Why? Their food supply increased with the warmer weather. You had the rise of the Mayan Civilization, the Aztecs, the Incans, and the Mound Builders of Cahokia. The Mayan civilization largely tanked at the end of the MWP, (shortly before Columbus landed) as did the Mound Builders, whose civilization completely collapsed and disappeared. The Incans had problems that continued to last for centuries. Of all the American civilizations only the Aztecs came out in anywhere near decent shape, but even they were easily taken by a few hundred Spaniards. It is absolutely clear the American civilizations flourished and failed in conjunction with these climate events.
Obviously, in Europe you had the MWP and LIA; that is well documented. And the Europeans shivered in their Medieval hovels until the climate warmed and they then expanded across the globe.
There is no question both of these were worldwide.
Most of the researchers evidence comes from tree rings and other proxy data. Well, proxy data is fungible. When Michael Mann constructed his "hockey stick" graph, he used data from the Yamal Peninsula site in Siberia.It eventually came out he used just 3 trees, because the others showed not warming but a slight cooling. In other words, Mann lied by omission. This is exactly what these studies are trying to do, too, to reinvigorate the 'hockey stick" despite ample evidence it is wrong.
Another nice try that will garner a lot of attention from the mainstream media, then will be utterly refuted but never retracted by said media. That's how they play the game; get fake news out there then let it die a quiet death.
More global warming horse poo.
From Livescience:
That's the conclusion of a trio of papers published July 24 in the journals Nature and Nature Geoscience that examined the global climate over the past two millennia. The researchers showed that none of the past fluctuations — that is, not the Little Ice Age, the warm period known as the Medieval Climate Anomaly or any other famous shift — had the global reach that modern climate change is having. Past fluctuations tended to be localized, affecting primarily one region at a time. Modern climate change, by contrast, is messing with the entire world.
"Temperatures did not rise and fall everywhere in step [in the past]," editors wrote in an accompanying opinion piece in Nature Geoscience. "Specifically, early cool or warm intervals that lasted for centuries peaked at different times in different regions."
That's a radical departure from modern climate change, Scott St. George, a climate researcher at the University of Minnesota who wasn't involved in the research, wrote in a news and views article for Nature. [10 Climate Myths Busted]
"Temperatures did not rise and fall everywhere in step [in the past]," editors wrote in an accompanying opinion piece in Nature Geoscience. "Specifically, early cool or warm intervals that lasted for centuries peaked at different times in different regions."
That's a radical departure from modern climate change, Scott St. George, a climate researcher at the University of Minnesota who wasn't involved in the research, wrote in a news and views article for Nature. [10 Climate Myths Busted]
First, why go back 2000 years? In point of fact we have been moving out of an ice age for the past ten thousand, so if it is warmer that should not surprise anyone. But it's also demonstrably false; a look at the ebb and flow of civilization tells us the Medieval Warming Period was worldwide, and the little Ice Age likewise.
During the Medieval Warming Period you had the rise of numerous civilizations, and the expansion of others. You had the Mongols swept out of the Gobi and conquer much of the world. Why? Their food supply increased with the warmer weather. You had the rise of the Mayan Civilization, the Aztecs, the Incans, and the Mound Builders of Cahokia. The Mayan civilization largely tanked at the end of the MWP, (shortly before Columbus landed) as did the Mound Builders, whose civilization completely collapsed and disappeared. The Incans had problems that continued to last for centuries. Of all the American civilizations only the Aztecs came out in anywhere near decent shape, but even they were easily taken by a few hundred Spaniards. It is absolutely clear the American civilizations flourished and failed in conjunction with these climate events.
Obviously, in Europe you had the MWP and LIA; that is well documented. And the Europeans shivered in their Medieval hovels until the climate warmed and they then expanded across the globe.
There is no question both of these were worldwide.
Most of the researchers evidence comes from tree rings and other proxy data. Well, proxy data is fungible. When Michael Mann constructed his "hockey stick" graph, he used data from the Yamal Peninsula site in Siberia.It eventually came out he used just 3 trees, because the others showed not warming but a slight cooling. In other words, Mann lied by omission. This is exactly what these studies are trying to do, too, to reinvigorate the 'hockey stick" despite ample evidence it is wrong.
Another nice try that will garner a lot of attention from the mainstream media, then will be utterly refuted but never retracted by said media. That's how they play the game; get fake news out there then let it die a quiet death.
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During the Medieval Warming Period, as I never tire of pointing out, Eric "the Red" (nicknamed for the color of his hair and beard, not his politics) Thorvaldson (if memory serves me correctly) led a seaborne exploration west from his home in Iceland and discovered Greenland, which he named for the color of its meadows, later leading a colonization effort which led to a Norse habitation there. They farmed quite successfully until the climate turned cold again, at which time they starved, being unable to adapt. I don't remember how long the colony survived, as I'm going totally by memory here.
It was during that time that Eric's sons, Leif, Thorvald (and I can't at this point remember the third -- Thorstein, perhaps?) continued westward exploration and landed on the North American continent, somewhere in Labrador if my memory is correct. Viking artifacts have been found there, dated to that period. No settlements were made, as the Native Americans were hostile, and one of Eric's sons was killed by them.
Going back to Greenland: if you were to be the first European to discover that island today, I doubt you'd name it "Greenland," much less try to establish a farming community there. But farm it, they did. Had to be a LOT warmer than it is today.
It was during that time that Eric's sons, Leif, Thorvald (and I can't at this point remember the third -- Thorstein, perhaps?) continued westward exploration and landed on the North American continent, somewhere in Labrador if my memory is correct. Viking artifacts have been found there, dated to that period. No settlements were made, as the Native Americans were hostile, and one of Eric's sons was killed by them.
Going back to Greenland: if you were to be the first European to discover that island today, I doubt you'd name it "Greenland," much less try to establish a farming community there. But farm it, they did. Had to be a LOT warmer than it is today.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 27, 2019 10:59 AM (rIYC+)
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Yep! But there was not MWP, no sir! Believe the Borg and not your lying eyes!
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at July 28, 2019 01:34 PM (3D0gS)
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