[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[JSteff]

None of these changes could have been caused by changes in atmospheric CO2 because they predate the large CO2 emissions that began about 1945.

So what do the Global Warming huts have to say now?

[TigersEye]

Unless all of those ice cores and the way they are interpreted is completely and utterly wrong this is proof positive that there is no AWG and CO2 has no effect on the climate.

But then ice cores are far from the only proof of these historical temperature swings.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Dilbert56]

Could you imagine the headlines back in those days?

"Temperatures drop unexpectedly.

[djf]

The data looks correct, and seems to jive with the Vostok Ice core data.

Is there global warming? Yes.
Is it man made? Hell no.

The same cycles have repeated over and over for the last 1.2 million years or so.

And the chart says it best: on the left, it says we are in the “Holocene interglacial”

We are right now in the “interglacial maximum”. It’s gonna get colder, folks. Much colder. Cold enough that all the ideas and dreams about “Well, I’ll just grow a few tomato plants...” well, thats pretty much a fantasy.
Not yet, maybe, but in the next 5-15 thousand years.

[ElkGroveDan]

This data is totally unreliable. It hasn't been “adjusted” yet. </sarcasm>

[SouthTexas]

Several years ago, someone produced data that showed pre-historic O2/CO2 levels. Data was retrieved from bubbles in amber.

Wonder if they can extract that from the ice cores?

[ForGod'sSake]

I’m like, you know, totally mortified; sortof. Why, this Watts guy doesn’t even have a PhD!!! The horror! And this Easterbrook fellow is obviously out of his element. What can a man credentialed with a PhD in geology possibly know about global war..., er, climate change. He just HAS to have rocks in his head. What’s he doing digging around in iceholes anyway? Looking for more rocks; har??? I’m just horrified that anyone would pay attention to these two Neandertahls who obviously have a hidden agenda. I mean really, anyone wanting to kill algore’s cash cow must be a fruitcake, or dimwitted or worse. Maybe TEA Partiers or something. They might be pursuing real science which will not allow the glob.., er, proper infrastructure to be put in place. They just don’t understand that without global governance to mitigate the coming climate change, whichever way it goes, we could all just, well, never mind...

[The Comedian]

OK, so answer the following question:

Are we all gonna die?

[] Yes

[] No

[] Maybe

[] There isn't even enough time left to choose any of the above answers

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[colorado tanker]

A few months ago I engaged in an extended email debate on a college alumni board with some alarmists. I laid out all the ice core data and other scientific arguments against AGW. Over and over. It was like talking to a wall. All I got back was "science" and "settled" and it's been warming since 1850, the world began industrializing about that time, therefore human industrialization causes global warming. Q.E.D.

I finally gave up and left them with my benediction, post hoc ergo propter hoc.

[LadyDoc]

thanks.
I was just listening to a lecture on neolithic England, about 3000 bc when the temperature was 3 degrees C higher than it is now.

One of his comments was that we are now in an “interglacial” period, and are overdue for it’s return, since the average “interglacial” period is 10 thousand years, and our present one has gone 12000 years so far. And since carbon emissions have only been present for half a century, they can’t blame it on industrialization.

[Nailbiter]

ping for later