In His Figure 2 he shows a composite figure of «Southern Hemisphere Temperature Reconstructions for Tasmania and Northern Patagonia» Each of these shows that the MWP was
cooler than the present day temperature by this proxy data.
Since the beginning, the story of the Earth's climate has been a tale of continual change: sometimes warmer, often far
colder than the present day.
«Conversely, there is more and better evidence across Iceland that when the ice sheet underwent major reduction at the end of the last glacial period, there was a large increase in both the frequency and volume of basalt erupted — with some estimates being 30 times
higher than the present day.
The current theory of Pygmy Mammoth origins traces back nearly 20,000 years, when the sea level was about 300 feet
lower than present day.
During the Holocene Optimum beginning about 9000 years ago, Jakobshavn retreated
further than its present day terminus and remained that way for almost 7000 years.
Unfortunately, the projections suggest that future average winter snowfall will be ten times
less than present day amounts, virtually erasing all snow cover.
New work from Carnegie's Peter Driscoll suggests Earth's ancient magnetic field was significantly
different than the present day field, originating from several poles rather than the familiar two.
Actually, those early Bulldogs, with the exception of the head, looked more like present day American Staffordshire
Terriers than present day Bulldogs.
Perhaps we should align environmentalism of the climate change type to that of religious fervour in the middle ages,
rather than the present day.
That is a matter that is the subject of much debate but it seems to me that if that were possible it would have happened many times in the past at times of much higher CO2
levels than the present day so that the risk would be readily apparent in the historical record but it is not.
Of course, that's just the U.S. — the 1930s were certainly warmer
than present day in the U.S., but that's not the case when you look at the global average.
In terms of the global average, temperatures were probably
colder than present day (depending on estimates of latitude dependence and seasonality in response patterns).
This dynamic time for East Antarctic glaciers occurred when atmospheric temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels were similar to or
higher than present day.
The world of dinosaurs was much
warmer than the present day; Nasutoceratops lived in a subtropical swampy environment about 100 km from the seaway.
These remains confirm that the deposits date to a warm period of climate around 420,000 years ago, the so - called Hoxnian interglacial, when the climate was probably slightly warmer
than the present day.
Projecting the 165 - year instrumental trends suggests within 500 years temperatures will reach 2.5 to 3.5 degrees C warmer
than present day.
There is sufficient work identifying the possibility of those anomalies being warmer
than present day that, at the very least, scientists who want to be taken seriously can try to understand why those warming events took place.
We know that parts of the Arctic were ice free for thousands of years and much warmer
than the present day.
Durkin never states that the mythical charts, which apparently show a medieval warm period and Holocene climatic optimum that were warmer
than the present day, come from doctored diagrams produced by a German school teacher, EG Beck.