[blam]

Global warming ping.

[samtheman]

Hmmm. Sounds like this subject needs more study. Which is what Bush has been saying all along. Duh!

[discostu]

We know from Roman documentation of farming in Europe that is has gotten colder in at least the last 2000 years. Once again the global warmers are just nutty.

[Bikers4Bush]

I knew it was the faults of the damn farmers. (Sarcasm of course)

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[LiteKeeper]

Agriculture often replaces natural vegetation. How can there be a significant shift in the balance then?

[polemikos]

this 10,000-year warming added almost a degree Celsius to the global average temperature.

Run for the hills! The sky is falling. The sky is falling!

[AppyPappy]

The Earth is always getting warmer except when it is getting cooler.

[talleyman]

See? Global warming good! Heat makes things expand - that's why the days get longer in the summer!

[elli1]

ah ha! Hear this vegetarians? Vegetables are the cause of global warming.

[Always Right]

Glaciers covered much of what is now the midwestern section of the US 20,000 years ago. 10,000 years ago these glaciers were gone. Did man do that too????

[4mycountry]

Sounds like hot air to me.

[F.J. Mitchell]

All speculation beyond the scope of one's knowledge, is pure BS, regardless of the number of diplomas that decorate the walls of the genius.

[ancient_geezer]

Humans have been warming the Earth's climate for the last 10,000 years, US scientist William Ruddiman claims.

 

Figure 1-2 Climate of the last 2400 years

Hmmm! strange definition of warming trend by humans there. Looks like overall down to me.

Figure 1-3 Climate of the last 12,000 years

Ohh! I see, It must-a-been that jump in temperature just before agriculture set in from all them caveman hunter/gatherer campfires.

[Consort]

Weather is caused by stray lingering thoughts of dead humans. Everybody knows that.

[Jackson Brown]

And it does not alter the assertion that almost a further degree Celsius has been added over the last century alone, mainly through our dependence on fossil fuels.

This theory might not alter this conclusion, but the facts do. The short AND long term records show that warming came first and then the atmospheric CO2 build up FOLLOWED! Since warmer soil and water can retain less CO2, it is more logical to view warming as the cause of atmospheric CO2 and not visa versa...especially since that is what the most recent studies that address the cause and effects now show...but are ignored by the GW entrepreneurs!

[Old Professer]

This is typical of "scientists": when your argument proves unmarketable, change arguments.

[stylin19a]

Professor Ruddiman has now calculated that if the Earth had followed its natural cycle over the last 10,000 years, it should have got steadily colder.

He should have been around my house the time I told my wife "Those slacks make your butt look big"

[lepton]

Professor Weiss said it was something of an irony that natural changes in climate made modern society possible, whereas society was now changing the climate in ways which threatened its existence stabilizing climate change.

[SevenDaysInMay]

Coincidence has its headlines.

What of other interglacial periods?

What happened 5,000 years ago?

What were the pre-Holocene populations of termites? ( a leading producer of methane)

Could the sublimating methane ice on the ocean floor be a lagging indicator of the ice melt off?

These guys don't know and can't know. so, they just jump to a conclusion like watermellon headline writers.