Unusual (But Not Unprecedented)

Friday 24 August 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

And once again we have the actual evidence of global warming studies reveal that global warmists are nothing if not a cult. Nature (via The Register):

The high rate of warming over the past century is unusual (but not unprecedented) in the context of natural climate variability over the past two millennia.

Repeating the temperature trend analysis using 50-year windows confirms the finding that the rapidity of recent Antarctic Peninsula warming is unusual but not unprecedented … natural millennial-scale climate variability has resulted in warming on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula that has been ongoing for a number of centuries and had left ice shelves in this area vulnerable to collapse.

There is evidence for instability of the Larsen A ice shelf between 3,800 and 1,400 yr [ago]. Farther south again, the Larsen B ice shelf probably remained intact throughout the Holocene, although there is evidence that the ice shelf was progressively weakened by melting … temperatures similar to present occurred in this region for much of the Holocene, resulting in a regime in which ice shelves were only transient features along the northern-most part of the eastern Antarctic Peninsula and were undergoing decay farther to the south. An additional new perspective is that recent warming to levels consistent with the mid Holocene meant that the ice shelves along the northeastern Peninsula were poised for the succession of collapses observed there over recent decades.

Not only has significant warming happened along the Antarctic Peninsula many, many times before, but it has also been warmer than it currently is during other times which long predate modern industrialization, and the area has seen various times when the ice shelf has either completely melted away or broken off. What we’re seeing there is NOT unprecedented, and, according to the ice cores, aren’t really even all that noteworthy in terms of warming.

Any use of what is happening to the ice shelf in this area as a sign that we’re facing an upcoming apocalypse is nothing but hot air. Maybe Team HOT ought to quit with all of the warming scares; aren’t they aware that we have a global warming problem?

2012-08-24  »  madlibertarianguy