Sunday - December 16, 2007
Paging Al Gore: How Do You Explain This?
Logically, we know "global warming", as preached by Al Gore and other ultra left radicals is based on emotion and not fact.
For instance, during the middle ages, until the late nineteenth century, much of the world went through something called the "the little ice age." Read this wiki entry for the background information.
At one time, when the Vikings settled southern Greenland in the 800s, the climate was favorable to farming and livestock. Thus the name 'Greenland' and not 'Iceland.' Then, by 1500, the Norse left Greenland, in part to colder, harsher weather.
The point, Greenland, during recorded history has experienced expanding and declining ice packs and warmer and colder temperatures.
Let's think about other ancient climate swings. Have you ever visited the American southwest? Have you seen the incredible pueblos, built by peoples who abandoned these great communal centers? Do you remember the National Park guides explaining that the Anasazi abandoned their pueblos, in part due to droughts that often lasted decades? Here are some good sources on the topic: here and here.
Obviously Ancient Native American's didn't know about carbon credits, because to listen to the global warming crowd, weather extremes only started happening in the last 30 years, due to American greed.
Okay, so what's my point? Researchers, actually a professor and an undergrad assistant went through temperature logs, travel descriptions, and other similar materials relating to Greenland. And guess what they found?
In the 1920s, Greenland's ice was melting, almost to the same extent as it is doing today.
Do you think that is what happened when the first Vikings were seduced by green pastures of Greenland 1200 years ago? Imagine that, the world warms and cools independently of man!
Two researchers here spent months scouring through old expedition logs and reports, and reviewing 70-year-old maps and photos before making a surprising discovery: They found that the effects of the current warming and melting of Greenland's glaciers that has alarmed the world's climate scientists occurred in the decades following an abrupt warming in the 1920s.
Their evidence reinforces the belief that glaciers and other bodies of ice are exquisitely hyper-sensitive to climate change and bolsters the concern that rising temperatures will speed the demise of that island's ice fields, hastening sea level rise.
The work, recently reported at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco , may help to discount critics' notion that the melting of Greenland 's glaciers is merely an isolated, regional event.
They recently recognized from using weather station records from the past century that temperatures in Greenland had warmed in the 1920s at rates equivalent to the recent past. But they hadn't confirmed that the island's glaciers responded to that earlier warming, until now. Read more....
Author: The Machiavellian
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