2,300-Year Climate Record Suggests Severe Tropical Droughts as Northern Temperatures Rise

Science Daily ^ | 05-12-2011 | University of Pittsburgh.

[Olog-hai]

High-larious. The UN had to perform a little memory-hole-dumping recently, since their little prediction about “climate refugees” having to move inland by 2010 (a whopping 50 million was predicted) was proven utterly false. (They even had plans to evacuate Tuvalu.)

[sourcery]

This must be a lie. The global average temperate has never been warmer than it is now at any time since the end of the last ice age. Everyone knows that! The IPCC can’t be wrong about that, can they? But they’d have to be wrong, if it was warmer 2300 years ago...

[hellbender]

Beginning in 900, however, a severe drought set in for the next three centuries, with the driest period falling between 1000 and 1040.

Duh. That's the well-known Medieval Warming period, which the global warming pseudo-scientists have tried to pretend never happened, because it proves that climate was at least as warm as today without any burning of fossil fuels.

[Jim Noble]

Yes, that is correct. The paleoclimatic records show that the temperatures go up, and then go down. The records also show that drought alternates with rainy periods, that fertile lands become deserts and that deserts become fertile. In addition, the records show that there are periods of extreme cold when the oceans fall, alternating with rapid melting and flooding.

What does any of this have to do with the price of beer?

[BlazingArizona]

“The sediment core shows regular fluctuations in rainfall from 300 BCE to 900 CE, with notably heavy precipitation around 550. Beginning in 900, however, a severe drought set in for the next three centuries, with the driest period falling between 1000 and 1040. This period correlates with the well-known demise of regional Native American populations, Abbott explained, including the Tiwanaku and Wari that inhabited present-day Boliva, Chile, and Peru.”

So much for the Church of Warminetics’ hypothesis that the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age were purely European phenomena.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[SunkenCiv]

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[colorado tanker]

I guess this proves that no matter what climate cycle the Earth is in there is always someplace in the world that has reason to complain about the weather.

[TheOldLady]

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[Bernard Marx]

The universal conclusion in all these studies is that the climate naturally changes.

As any non-PC historical geologist could tell you. If humanity is to survive those changes we must adapt to them, not kid ourselves that we can control the process.

I've studied the real science of long-trend climate change and global extremes of warming and cooling are inevitable. We're still warming up from the most recent ice age and have a way to go yet.

Climate does change and the changes can be drastic. But GoreBull efforts to blame human activity for either warming or cooling trends are junk science of global proportions.