But the results of studying earth climate in the past, indicates we currently in an unusual cool period, and that human evolution coincided
with global cooling period.
Not exact matches
This timeframe is particularly relevant for the evolution of past climate as it is a
period of intense
cooling coupled
with increased aridity at a
global scale.
As discussed elsewhere on this site, modeling studies indicate that the modest
cooling of hemispheric or
global mean temperatures during the 15th - 19th centuries (relative to the warmer temperatures of the 11th - 14th centuries) appears to have been associated
with a combination of lowered solar irradiance and a particularly intense
period of explosive volcanic activity.
Overall the results suggest that the Southern Oscillation exercises a consistently dominant influence on mean
global temperature,
with a maximum effect in the tropics, except for
periods when equatorial volcanism causes ad hoc
cooling.
«The first part will trace the history of scientific study of climate change, beginning
with scientific inquiry into the formation and melting of the ice ages,
periods of historical
cooling and warming, smog, ozone, nuclear winter, volcanoes, and
global warming.
The analysis focuses on a
period beginning after World War 2 when a decades - long climb in
global temperatures stopped,
with the northern hemisphere, particularly,
cooling somewhat.
• Greenhouse gases contributed a
global mean surface warming likely to be in the range of 0.5 °C to 1.3 °C over the
period 1951 to 2010,
with the contributions from other anthropogenic forcings, including the
cooling effect of aerosols, likely to be in the range of − 0.6 °C to 0.1 °C.
If you're relatively familiar
with the climate «debate», you will know that the rapid
cooling period from the 1940's to the 1970's led to climate «experts» (climate scientists) declaring the end of life as we know it, in the form of the «Global Cooling»
cooling period from the 1940's to the 1970's led to climate «experts» (climate scientists) declaring the end of life as we know it, in the form of the «
Global Cooling»
Cooling» scare:
Interestingly, the paper «Climate Trends and
Global food production since 1980» (Lobell, Schlenker, Costa - Roberts, in Sciencexpress, 5 May, Science 1204531) confirms my finding of the absence of climate change in the USA: «A notable exception to the [global] warming pattern is the United States, which produces c. 40 % of global maize and soybean and experienced a slight cooling over the period... the country with largest overall share of crop production (United States) showed no [adverse] effect due to the lack of significant climate trends&r
Global food production since 1980» (Lobell, Schlenker, Costa - Roberts, in Sciencexpress, 5 May, Science 1204531) confirms my finding of the absence of climate change in the USA: «A notable exception to the [
global] warming pattern is the United States, which produces c. 40 % of global maize and soybean and experienced a slight cooling over the period... the country with largest overall share of crop production (United States) showed no [adverse] effect due to the lack of significant climate trends&r
global] warming pattern is the United States, which produces c. 40 % of
global maize and soybean and experienced a slight cooling over the period... the country with largest overall share of crop production (United States) showed no [adverse] effect due to the lack of significant climate trends&r
global maize and soybean and experienced a slight
cooling over the
period... the country
with largest overall share of crop production (United States) showed no [adverse] effect due to the lack of significant climate trends».
Periods of weak solar cycles are associated with periods of global c
Periods of weak solar cycles are associated
with periods of global c
periods of
global cooling.
Greenhouse gases contributed a
global mean surface warming likely to be in the range of 0.5 °C to 1.3 °C over the
period 1951 − 2010,
with the contributions from other anthropogenic forcings, including the
cooling effect of aerosols, likely to be in the range of − 0.6 °C to 0.1 °C.
lends support to the idea that a
period of
global cooling occurred later during the mid-twentieth century as a result of sulphate aerosols being released during the 1950s
with the rise of industrial output.
For instance, extreme weather events occurred
with about the same frequency during the 1945 - 77
global cooling period as they do today, yet no climate scientist pointed to human activity as being responsible in the earlier
period.
«The existence of the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm
Period were an embarrassment to the
global - warming establishment, because they showed that the current warming is almost indistinguishable from previous warming and
coolings that had nothing to do
with burning fossil fuel.
Stepping back from there, Hansen looks at 1940 and above: «The approximate stand - still of
global temperature during 1940 - 1975 is generally attributed to an approximate balance of aerosol
cooling and greenhouse gas warming during a
period of rapid growth of fossil fuel use
with little control on particulate air pollution, but quantitative interpretation has been impossible» That's the excuse and it is laughable.
The approximate stand - still of
global temperature during 1940 - 1975 is generally attributed to an approximate balance of aerosol
cooling and greenhouse gas warming during a
period of rapid growth of fossil fuel use
with little control on particulate air pollution, but quantitative interpretation has been impossible because of the absence of adequate aerosol measurements.
(See: NYT: Missing Its Spots: «Sun may be on verge of falling into an extended slumber» — could cause «extended chilly
period» — «Cosmic ray levels correlate well
with climate extending back thousands of years» — July 21, 2009 & Also see: «Sun Sleeps»: Danish Scientist declares «
global warming has stopped and a
cooling is beginning... enjoy
global warming while it lasts» — Sun is «heading towards «a grand minimum» as we saw in Little Ice Age» — Sept. 11, 2009)
The
global warming signal itself is a multidecadal feature of the climate, but just like the seasonal example above, it has been possible at times to take one
period of one temperature record - surface air temperatures in most cases - and do a «January - February» job
with it, thereby making the claim that temperatures are flatlining or even
cooling.
Of course, the present
period with lack of discernible
global warming or
cooling will come to an end sometime.
We now know that climate cycles and the
global warming of the last 300 years are consistent
with recovery from the LIA
with periods of no - warming and
cooling provided by shorter cycles.
We found that the world naturally switches between
periods of
global warming and
periods of
global cooling,
with each
period lasting several decades.
«Key Points ■ Models run
with human forcing can produce 10 - year
periods with little warming»
Global warming ended after 1998 and the Earth has been
cooling since 2002.
Another paper discusses how atmospheric humidity increased during the recent
period of pronounced
global warming (from about the late 1970s to the present),
with a humidity decrease during the
cooling / temperature stagnation
period of ~ 1940s to the 1970s:
«In the nearest future we will observe a transition (between
global warming and
global cooling)
period of unstable climate changes
with the
global temperature fluctuating around its maximum value reached in 1998 - 2005.
«The first part will trace the history of scientific study of climate change, beginning
with scientific inquiry into the formation and melting of the ice ages,
periods of historical
cooling and warming, smog, ozone, nuclear winter, volcanoes, and
global warming,» the filing explained.
While a long - term trend is for
global warming, short - term
periods of
cooling can occur and have physical causes associated
with natural variability.
This
period has been widely studied because the radiative forcings and boundary conditions are relatively well known and because the
global cooling during that
period is comparable
with the projected warming over the 21st century.
Yah, it
cools a bit, then it warms a bit, then it
cools... as Dr Courtney reminds us, the classic averaging
period to discern the long term climate signal is thirty years and over this
period all the
global temperature series show a warming trend in line
with that predicted by AGW.
«Luetkemeyer's legislation would prohibit U.S. contributions to the IPCC, which is nothing more than a group of U.N. bureaucrats that supports man - made claims on
global warming that many scientists disagree
with... Meanwhile, our very own Environmental Protection Agency recently reported that we are undergoing a
period of worldwide
cooling.»
We have just started a sixth
period with the proposed name of Anthropocene, that should last around 2,200 years, until about 4,200 C.E. Every one of the last five
periods (since 10.2 kyr ago) started
with global warming as a recovery from the depressed temperatures of the
cooling oscillations that separate the
periods.
Adding data from around the world, however, indicates that the Medieval Warm
Period was mainly a regional phenomenon,
with warming in one region offsetting
cooling in other regions, leaving little change in the average
global temperature.
The approximate stand - still of
global temperature during 1940 - 1975 is generally attributed to an approximate balance of aerosol
cooling and greenhouse gas warming during a
period of rapid growth of fossil fuel use
with little control on particulate air pollution, but satisfactory quantitative interpretation has been impossible because of the absence of adequate aerosol measurements.
The approximate stand - still of
global temperature during 1940 - 1975 is generally attributed to an approximate balance of aerosol
cooling and greenhouse gas warming during a
period of rapid growth of fossil fuel use
with little control on particulate air pollution -LSB-...]»
The IPCC compared the recent
global warming rate
with global warming rate for a longer
period that has a combination this recent warming and previous
global cooling phase and declared to the world «accelerated warming.»
There are also some interesting sociological studies which suggest that the high points of human civilization appear to coincide
with periods of
global warmth (Roman Empire, Rapid european growth in middle ages, modern era of growth) while
periods of
cooler climate have coincided
with the low points in human civilization (collapse of Rome, Dark ages, black death, european population collapse, famine)
Greenland ice cores indicate that the start of the instrumented data (thermometers) coincides
with a cold
period in the northern hemisphere and that at the site of a well - studied ice core (
Global Cooling - Doomsday Called Off), the temperature in the mid 1800s was the coldest in 8,000 years.
It does make more sense that a long
period of atmospheric
cooling would lead to a lowering of sea level, but that correlation has NOTHING to do
with CO2 emissions, which were skyrocketing while
global temperatures either fell or remained steady.
Plain Language Summary:
Global and regional warming trends over the course of the twentieth century have been nonuniform,
with decadal and longer
periods of faster or slower warming, or even
cooling.