[E. Pluribus Unum]

Three cheers for global warming!

[exist]

Thank goodness for those SUVs and hairspray and polluting corporations in the 1900s that warmed the earth up.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Defiant]

As I recall, our global temperature the past couple decades is somewhere about halfway between the medieval warm period and the Little Ice Age. The Medieval Warm Period is hailed as a time of prosperity for Europe, allowing for bumper crops and healthy, well-fed people. I’ll be concerned about warming if and when we blow past that temperature. As of now, I am of the belief that we are entering into another Little Ice Age, but it’s too early to tell. It might actually be a real ice age. The globull warming idiots have no idea what the earth is doing, and anyone who claims they do is lying.

[mamelukesabre]

“By the summer, there were reports of starving people in the fields “eating grass like sheep.”

That would be a sight to see.

[Publius6961]

"We need to explain the natural variation in climate over past centuries so that we can tease apart all those factors that contribute to climate change. But before we can do that we need to nail down those changes in detail," says Wheeler. "Climate doesn't behave consistently and warmer and colder, drier and wetter periods can't always be explained by the same mechanisms." In the two decades after that terrible winter, the climate warmed very rapidly. "Some people point to that and say today's warming is nothing new. But they are not comparable. The factors causing warming then were quite different from those operating now."

Poor conflicted scientists. They can't seem to make up their minds whether studying the past can give us insight into the present and the future.

That current "global warming" religion certainly has a pernicious and persistent effect on scientists (as opposed to science.)

If this is their belief (emphasis mine) why bother studying the past at all? In detail or otherwise?

[Da Coyote]

I love that last line: “...In the two decades after that terrible winter, the climate warmed very rapidly. “Some people point to that and say today’s warming is nothing new. But they are not comparable. The factors causing warming then were quite different from those operating now.”

In previous paragraphs, they admitted that they DID NOT KNOW why that winter in was so very cold...but now, our factors are very different.

Really?

Gads, glad these folks don’t mess around with real physics - like, you know, nuclear reactors, etc.

[sphinx]

1709? There should be reasonably reliable records from the Middle East, India, China, and the Americas, both north and south. A broader picture would be interesting.

[trillabodilla]

Very interesting article- Thanks!

[Fractal Trader]

GGG Ping

[ApplegateRanch]

Yes! Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! I can throw the chainsaw away!

YES! Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! I can finally ripen a tomato!

YES! Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! I won't have to plow my ranch roads anymore!

Have to admit, though, that it is a bit difficult to just toss a yule log on the airconditioner, and stay cool.

[blam]

Man, I hate cold weather.

Part of a lagoon which froze over in 1708, Venice, Italy, by Gabriele Bella (1733-99) (Image: The Art Archive / Querini Stampalia Foundation Venice / Gianni Dagli Orti)

[ApplegateRanch]

On 10 January, Derham logged -12 °C, the lowest temperature he had ever measured

LIAR! Centigrade/Celsius/C scale was devised in 1742. Derham logged a Fahrenheit temperature, which (IF we can trust your conversion skills) was equivalent to a temperature of -12C:

10.4F

Are we to believe that Derham REALLY "logged" 10.4F? Or, did he log a whole number, or maybe 10.5F? Just how small & precise were the divisions of his thermometer?

Nitpicking, I know, but if one expects their "science" to be taken seriously, then they must be equally precise in their use of language.

[RegulatorCountry]

I’ve read old accounts of this, from some of my German speaking maternal ancestors who left Alsace and sailed from Rotterdam to Philadelphia, joining up with the Moravians in Berks Co., then migrating on foot from PA to the Wachovia Tract in North Carolina, 1753.

Wild animals frozen in their tracks, trees shattering, birds falling frozen, starvation and death all around. That’s why they left. Not sure how they got from Alsace to Rotterdam, in light of everything being frozen, must’ve walked down the river? I don’t know the month of departure, just the year, 1709.

[aculeus]

Niagara Falls in (I think) 1911.

[PapaBear3625]

And, coincidentally, that happened during the Maunder minimum, when sunspot activity had dropped close to zero from 1645 to 1715, with accompanying extremely cold weather.

Something like the current situation.

[Nowhere Man]

People across Europe awoke on 6 January 1709 to find the temperature had plummeted. A three-week freeze was followed by a brief thaw - and then the mercury plunged again and stayed there. From Scandinavia in the north to Italy in the south, and from Czechoslovakia in the east to the west coast of France, everything turned to ice. The sea froze. Lakes and rivers froze, and the soil froze to a depth of a metre or more. Livestock died from cold in their barns, chicken's combs froze and fell off, trees exploded and travellers froze to death on the roads. It was the coldest winter in 500 years.

I remember back in the 1970's, one of my buddies told us that there was a winter that was so cold that trees in New England did explode. Us being kids, we kind of laughed at that, I mean, who has ever heard of a tree exploding but I guess it would have to do with the sap inside flowing and whatnot. I know the winter of 1816 was cold as well here in the U.S.

[Delacon]

ping

[Dustbunny]

Livestock died from cold in their barns, chicken's combs froze and fell off, trees exploded

What is so strange about that. I remember the same things happening in the middle and late 1970's. We live in North Central Penna. Saw and heard it first hand. Our roosters experienced their combs freezing and falling off. It did not kill them. Yes the coop was heated with low hanging light bulbs in cages. And trees really do freeze and let out a loud cracking sound. You can still see where the tree crack and closed back up in the Spring.

[neverdem]

The Mediterranean didn’t have ice according to the story, just the lagoons of Venice off the Adriatic Sea as indicated at the start of the story by the source.

[wildbill]

Wasn’t there another global freezing around 1200 a.d.?