A combination of
historical ice core data and air monitoring instruments reveals a consistent trend: global atmospheric methane concentrations have risen sharply in the past 2000 years.
Not exact matches
It's OK to state that, «The common belief that carbon dioxide is driving climate change is at odds with much of the available scientific
data:
data from weather balloons and satellites, from
ice core surveys, and from the
historical temperature records» when this is clearly untrue.
>... there are still ways of discovering the temperatures of past centuries,... tree rings...
Core samples from drilling in
ice fields...
historical reconstruction... coral growth, isotope
data from sea floor sediment, and insects, all of which point to a very warm climate in medieval times.
The range of most
historical ocean
data include the
ice core data, so no problems with them.
Thus if one plots all the minima of the different
historical measurements, that gives a better impression of the real «background» CO2 level than the averages: see The same for ocean
data and coastal
data: all are around the
ice core level.
Nowadays, a common check is to see how the models check with
historical records:
ice core samples have given us enough
data about the
ice ages to be able to run the models in «
ice age mode» — and they seem to agree very well with the
data.
These have been observed in the paleo record including
ice core data plus many
historical references, so are very likely to be real (unlike unicorns, which have only been sighted after a night of heavy drinking).
I only disagreed with the
ice core /
historical data points, after several years of discussions with the late Beck.
In such case for proper scientific analysis it is better to rely on good quality
data where available and proxy
data for
historical reconstructions — like for instance satellite
data &
ice core data.
In 1965 British climatologist Hubert Horace Lamb examined
historical records of harvests and precipitation, along with early
ice -
core and tree - ring
data, and concluded that the MWP was probably 1 — 2 °C (1.8 — 3.6 °F) warmer than early 20th - century conditions in Europe.
Ice core and
historical data.
That the
historical data in Beck «s compendium and the
Ice Core data published before 1985 pointed out by Jaworowski and Segalstad are all too high and should be tossed out.
Historical records from early settlements reveal glacier boundaries, as does
ice core data taken by drilling down into the annual layers of
ice that make up glaciers.
The message from the
historical data — records, tree rings,
ice cores, lake sediments and so on — is that global warming is linked to fossil fuel - burning and to rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
About Beck's
historical data vs.
ice cores: I don't want to (re) start the discussion of Beck's
data here.