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Arctic temperatures are now higher than at any time in the last 2,000 years, research reveals.
Changes to the Earth's orbit drove centuries of cooling, but temperatures rose fast in the last 100 years as human greenhouse gas emissions rose.
Scientists took evidence from ice cores, tree rings and lake sediments.
Writing in the journal Science, they say this confirms that the Arctic is very sensitive both to changes in solar heating and to greenhouse warming.
The 23 sites sampled were good enough to provide a decade-by-decade picture of temperatures across the region.
The result is a "hockey stick"-like curve in which the last decade - 1998-2008 - stands out as the warmest in the entire series.
"The most pervasive signal in the reconstruction, the most prominent trend, is the overall cooling that took place for the first 1,900 years [of the record]," said study leader Darrell Kaufman from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, US.
"The 20th Century stands out in strong contrast to the cooling that should have continued. The last half-century was the warmest of the 2,000-year temperature record, and the last 10 years have been especially dramatic," he told BBC News.
Kaufman is wrong? Doesn't know what he's talking about? Will someone please provide the data refuting the claim Mr. Kaufman is making? The charts and the scientists who are interpreting them please. Is he a government spy or working for Them?
If it was on the BBC then it is automatically suspect.
ReplyDeleteIt's part of the softening-up process in advance of the next climate conference in December, which will conclude that we're doomed unless we give them all our money and let them boss us about even more.
ReplyDeleteFor refutation you could try Whatsupwiththat or Lubos Motl.
It's not even wrong, it's cobblers. To learn about the wonders of upside down proxies, your first resort should be to
ReplyDeletehttp://www.climateaudit.org/
Oh, and btw - the "hockey stick" is utterly discredited. It's a fiction that even the warmists are now too embarassed to use.
ReplyDeleteIs this piece aimed at primary schools or something? It reads like a starter on Anthropogenic Global Warming for people who know nothing and haven't been paying attention for the last ten years or so - ten years during which the data has constantly refused to match the models, so much so that the original models are now discredited too, and the alarmists are trying to come up with new ones, or change the data - or just lose it, in some cases.
Since 1998 the world has actually cooled.
James,
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLkze-9GcI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN06JSi-SW8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCXDISLXTaY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQQGFZHSno
Each about 10 minutes long and he mentions the thoroughly discredited hockey stick.
STB.
Thanks, lads, for that advice. :)
ReplyDeleteI think we have to look at the big picture.
ReplyDeleteFWIW, and for those who have the time & inclination to read it, this is one of the best overviews I have come across.
Comments and/or abuse welcome.
http://earthintime.com/earthintime.html
intervention (as we can), being good stewards is one thing. Hype and let's make a profit on induced-paranoia is another.
ReplyDeletethanks for links, all
I'm worried about fiskings which are not fiskings but assertions of another angle which don't exactly address the first question but get us into an endless loop.
ReplyDeleteI'll follow all the links this evening when there's a bit of time.
SOME species of Australian birds are shrinking and the trend will likely continue because of global warming, a scientist said.
ReplyDeleteJanet Gardner, an Australian National University biologist, led a team of scientists who measured museum specimens to plot the decline in size of eight species of Australian birds over the past century.
The research, published last week in the British journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, found the birds in Australia’s southeast had become between 2 per cent to 4 per cent smaller.
Over the same century, Australia’s average daily temperature rose 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit (0.7 deg C), with the sharpest increase since the 1950s.