Not exact matches
Soon and Baliunas are «mindful» that the
Medieval Warming Period and the Little Ice Age should be defined by temperature, but «we emphasize that
great bias would result if those thermal anomalies were to be dissociated» from other climatic conditions.
5.1) Colder temperatures during the Little Ice Age caused much
greater harm than
warming during the
Medieval warm period.
He finds modern temperatures are 0.53 deg.C hotter than
medieval times and the modern
warming rate is 64 %
greater than the fastest rate in
medieval times.
The
Medieval Warm Period occurred 1,000 years ago, when wine vineyards dotted the landscape in
Great Britain and Vikings grew corn and barley in Greenland.
Michael Mann's «hockey stick» graph is bogus There was a
Medieval Warm Period, as warm or warmer than today «Climategate» showed that CRU scientists at the University of East Anglia were cooking the books Gore's film has gross exaggerations and has caused great harm — people feel they have been misled The IPCC is mainly politics — little science; rather than calculating confidence levels, the IPCC voted on t
Warm Period, as
warm or warmer than today «Climategate» showed that CRU scientists at the University of East Anglia were cooking the books Gore's film has gross exaggerations and has caused great harm — people feel they have been misled The IPCC is mainly politics — little science; rather than calculating confidence levels, the IPCC voted on t
warm or
warmer than today «Climategate» showed that CRU scientists at the University of East Anglia were cooking the books Gore's film has gross exaggerations and has caused
great harm — people feel they have been misled The IPCC is mainly politics — little science; rather than calculating confidence levels, the IPCC voted on them!
The video is worth a look: Among the key points Muller makes are: Michael Mann's «hockey stick» graph is bogus There was a
Medieval Warm Period, as warm or warmer than today «Climategate» showed that CRU scientists at the University of East Anglia were cooking the books Gore's film has gross exaggerations and has caused great harm — people feel they have been misled The IPCC is mainly politics — little science; rather than calculating confidence levels, the IPCC voted on t
Warm Period, as
warm or warmer than today «Climategate» showed that CRU scientists at the University of East Anglia were cooking the books Gore's film has gross exaggerations and has caused great harm — people feel they have been misled The IPCC is mainly politics — little science; rather than calculating confidence levels, the IPCC voted on t
warm or
warmer than today «Climategate» showed that CRU scientists at the University of East Anglia were cooking the books Gore's film has gross exaggerations and has caused
great harm — people feel they have been misled The IPCC is mainly politics — little science; rather than calculating confidence levels, the IPCC voted on them!
I don't necessarily see any contradiction whatsoever with the work of Mann et al., which showed that although many individual regions experienced similar warmth to modern warmth sometime in some broadly - defined «
Medieval Warm Period», the
warmest times were asynchronous in different regions and, hence, when you looked globally the warmth was not as
great as the late 20th century warmth which was not asynchronous.
In The
Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations, Brian Fagan documents the demise of the Pueblo Indian civilization at Chaco Canyon (in what's now New Mexico) during the
Medieval Warm Period (roughly between 800 and 1300 A.D.).
Soon and Baliunas are «mindful» that the
Medieval Warming Period and the Little Ice Age should be defined by temperature, but «we emphasize that
great bias would result if those thermal anomalies were to be dissociated» from other climatic conditions.
The place to go is a repository of peer - reviewed localized reconstructions to be found at http://www.co2science.org/data/mwp/description.php It main contain some bias, but overwhelmingly around 180 studies from around the world point to a
medieval warm period that was at least as
warm as today, and much
greater variability in climate that the hockey stick graph.
(http://www.skepticalscience.com/Do-critics-of-the-hockey-stick-realise-what-theyre-arguing-for.html) If for some reason, temperatures over the
Medieval Warm Period turn out to be
warmer than previously thought, this means climate sensitivity is actually
greater than 3 °C.
It would be remiss not to connect the Roman
warm optimum and the series of savage winters recorded above that afflicted Constantinople, with the
great medieval warming of Greenland and the age of the Vikings several hundred years later.
The paleoclimate record demonstrates conclusively that the
Medieval Warming Period was synchronous, world wide and had temperatures
greater than we are experiencing today.
Spangler Drongo — it may well have been
warmer before without CO2 — well if the «
Medieval Optimum Period» is anything to go by — major ongoing droughts in the Americas, Asia, Africa according to Brian Fagan — in his recently published book — «The
Great Warming» http://www.amazon.com/
Great-
Warming-Climate-Change-Civilizations/dp/1596913924