Sentences with phrase «modern climate anomaly»

Anne, that might be the case if there were not an adequate understanding of the natural forcings (levels of solar activity and vulcanism) causing the MCA and of anthropogenic forcings (greenhouse gases) largely causing what you call the Modern Climate Anomaly.

The «MCA» (Medieval Climate Anomaly) could mean that, rather than a CO2 driven AGW, we could be experiencing a «Modern Climate Anomaly» of 300 + years.

Not exact matches

In the Science Advances paper, Cook and his coauthors compare results from the new atlas and its counterparts across three time spans during the generally warm Medieval Climate Anomaly (1000 - 1200), the Little Ice Age (1550 - 1750), and the modern period (1850 - 2012).

For the purposes of argument, I'll acknowledge that it likely did so, but as the person who brought it up, the onus is on you to demonstrate that the amount the ice sheet receded during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) is similar to the amount it has receded in modern times.

What we — and other competent researchers — have all found is that the warmth was far more regional than modern warmth, with some large regions, like the tropical Pacific, having been unusually * cold * at the time, and when you average over the globe, the warmth of the medieval warm period / medieval climate anomaly simply doesn't reach modern warmth.

Note that the bottom chart shows the modern recent warming (RW) finally returning to the levels of around 1000AD and the extended Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) period.

The Medieval Climate Anomaly, which lasted from the years C.E. 1100 to 1300, was a period when megadroughts were more common than they are in our modern age.