There's
also historic warm temperatures in Alaska, and the deepest drought in decades across the west...
Not exact matches
The
historic temperature record is a massively important part of this jigsaw though, because it can tell us if todays
warming is within natural variability or quite unprecedented, and it is
also used to «tune» computer models (not that this has any great meaning — another story!).
They
also fail to appreciate that because solar radiation was at a
historic high during the period in question it likely follows that there was a net solar
warming of the oceans throughout the period even though the rate of solar radiation was on average stable during that period.
He
also discusses influence of sun, NAO, PDO, folly of «hockeystick» and IPCC fixation on CO2,
historic cold and
warm periods tied to solar activity, other solar influences on climate beside TSI, solar / cosmic ray work at CERN, futility of European fear - based renewable energy planning, etc., concluding:
And to maintain or slightly increase planetary temperature is
also very much a global good if — as Ruddiman and other scientists assert — the human production of greenhouse gases is helping to hold our planetary environment in its
historic, benignly
warm, interglacial mode.»