Cooling for 2,000 years
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Sam Fisher
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You've got that right, Will. Here's more on the study....
Planet Has Been Cooling for 2,000 Years
The warm summer is just what hoaxers needed to revive the flagging global warming swindle. But science is still not on their side:
A study suggests the Britain of 2,000 years ago experienced a lengthy period of hotter summers than today.
German researchers used data from tree rings — a key indicator of past climate — to claim the world has been on a ‘long-term cooling trend’ for two millennia until the global warming of the twentieth century.
This cooling was punctuated by a couple of warm spells.
These are the Medieval Warm Period, which is well known, but also a period during the toga-wearing Roman times when temperatures were apparently 1 deg C warmer than now.
They say the very warm period during the years 21 to 50AD has been underestimated by climate scientists.
Lead author Professor Dr Jan Esper of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz said: ‘We found that previous estimates of historical temperatures during the Roman era and the Middle Ages were too low.
‘This figure we calculated may not seem particularly significant, however it is not negligible when compared to global warming, which up to now has been less than 1 deg C.’
Climate naturally fluctuates, as anyone not relying on the New York Times for information is probably aware. But the overall trend over 2,000 years has been cooling as the Earth’s orbit takes it farther from the sun.
If the human race lasts long enough, we might find ourselves wishing manmade global warming were real.
Planet Has Been Cooling for 2,000 Years
The warm summer is just what hoaxers needed to revive the flagging global warming swindle. But science is still not on their side:
A study suggests the Britain of 2,000 years ago experienced a lengthy period of hotter summers than today.
German researchers used data from tree rings — a key indicator of past climate — to claim the world has been on a ‘long-term cooling trend’ for two millennia until the global warming of the twentieth century.
This cooling was punctuated by a couple of warm spells.
These are the Medieval Warm Period, which is well known, but also a period during the toga-wearing Roman times when temperatures were apparently 1 deg C warmer than now.
They say the very warm period during the years 21 to 50AD has been underestimated by climate scientists.
Lead author Professor Dr Jan Esper of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz said: ‘We found that previous estimates of historical temperatures during the Roman era and the Middle Ages were too low.
‘This figure we calculated may not seem particularly significant, however it is not negligible when compared to global warming, which up to now has been less than 1 deg C.’
Climate naturally fluctuates, as anyone not relying on the New York Times for information is probably aware. But the overall trend over 2,000 years has been cooling as the Earth’s orbit takes it farther from the sun.
If the human race lasts long enough, we might find ourselves wishing manmade global warming were real.
Mayhem
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Hardly a conclusive study. This only covers the "northern belt" from UK to Finland. OK, good for them. But science has also determined that the Sahara and Gobi regions have grown exponentially during the same period. The Tigris/Euphrates area is not anywhere near the same that it was back then. And the Anasazi (Mesa Verde) people didn't carve homes out of the side of a cliff because they liked watching sand blow around.
Two kooks and cup
