Global cooling confirmed
Actually, Canadafreepress is reporting that data from a recent peer-reviewed journal article [PDF] published in Climate Dynamics by Håkan Grudd of Stockholm University, Sweden confirms a general warming over the last 200 years. Global warming adherents shouldn’t get too excited about this, however because the study looks at dendrochronology (tree ring data) of the Scots Pine for the last 1500 years and the findings support a claim for a general COOLING trend of -0.3 degrees C over that time. The paper concludes that the late twentieth century is not exceptionally warm in the record; The warmest period over the past 1500 years was a 200 year span centered around 1000AD when there weren’t any SUVs around to take the heat for it (pun intended)! The findings should not come as a surprise to anyone interested in earth history. The Earth is currently in an interglacial period known as the Holocene. If past interglacials are any guide, we should be heading into another glacial period soon. It is important to note that while the findings of this researcher support a general cooling trend, they do not confirm or deny human impact on the environment in the short term. It is still possible that humans may yet create a climatic change on an order previously unseen in the last 1500 years and that we will only discover our impact after it becomes too late to do anything about it.
Comment posted on 2-24-2008
Bah. We’re headed to a flaming ball of death and destruction. This cooling data is stuff I think I’ve heard many times, thouh maybe this particular study is new.
I go with the community, and they’re pretty unanimous with the flaming ball of death theory! :p
Comment posted on 2-24-2008
And by community I mean scientific community.
Comment posted on 2-24-2008
Yours is just the knee-jerk reaction to the sensational headline that I was expecting. It appears from your comment that you didn’t read my last two sentences. The joke here is the time scale – yeah, we’re likely heading into another ice age – in 15,000 years!
There is no argument in the scientific community that the world is heading into another ice age – we have 800,000 years of ice-core evidence for those cycles. The probable flaming ball of death that may be visited upon humans in the short term (over the next couple hundred years) is much more of an immediate concern – to us.
The whole global warming issue has become so politically charged that no one can have a reasoned discussion about anything having to do with climate without instantly being called ignorant or anti-green – which was kind of my whole point here. Thanks for falling into my trap