Major Climate Change Occurred 5,200 Years Ago: Evidence Suggests That History Could Repeat Itself

Space and Earth Science News ^ | December 16, 2004

[snarks_when_bored]

It appears that 5,200 years ago, something fairly catastrophic happened to Earth, but we don't know for sure what it was. Glaciologist Thompson suggests that it was a drastic drop in solar output followed by a surge in that output. He finds a modern analogy in the 'little ice age' lasting from 1450 A.D. to 1850 A.D. followed by our perceived recent global warming. But, of course, it's not clear that he's correct.

More data and better models, please!

[MikefromOhio]

Source: Ohio State University

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yeah buddy!!!!

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I don't know what you're doing in Iraq, but get out of there safely, bud.

[MikefromOhio]

Thanks,

I am an IT contractor out of CENTCOM.

[NutCrackerBoy]

I must be nuts. I found myself cheering evidence coming in if knocks the self-satisfied smirks off the faces of the global warming idiots. I felt glad that it would soon be obvious to all that far, far more telling than the changes from human causes are the ones from natural causes. But if the coming changes are catastrophic, it hardly seems appropriate to be celebrating these finds.

[snarks_when_bored]

Gotcha. Absolutely best regards and grateful thanks!

[MikefromOhio]

no problem...

23 days to go....

[snarks_when_bored]

Right...a schadenfreude moment. It seems pretty clear that the climate is acting up a bit, but we're way, way off from being able to say that humans did it. And Thompson's work certainly suggests that humans didn't do it, at least not all of it and probably not much of it. We'll see, I'm sure.

[dzzrtrock]

Excellent article and still another that puts the lie to man-caused global warming. so much for the kyoto "make america a 3rd world country" accord, huh?

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"But we didn't sign the Kyoto Treaty, so Bin Laden attacked us and the rest of the world hates us."

Ah, the simple life.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Glaciologist Thompson suggests that it was a drastic drop in solar output followed by a surge in that output.

Well, that is a change coming from a Glaciologist...no contracts with NASA I would guess.

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[snarks_when_bored]

Contracts? What contracts? He don't need no steenking contracts!

(It's late.)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Hey I just mentioned your name over here and did an attempt to explain what a ping list was:

Anti-American and anti-Israel bias on CBC

Seems to be a frequently reoccurring question.

[snarks_when_bored]

"What, me worry?"

[Columbus Dawg]

http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/quelplant.htm

It is one of the three cover stories on The Ohio State University web site.
www.osu.edu

[Restorer]

Seventy percent of the population lives in the world’s tropics and major climate changes would directly impact most of them.

Flatly untrue. The true number is hard to come by, but is certainly less than 1/3 and is probably below 1/4. After all, China, India, Europe and the US are all entirely or almost entirely outside the tropics.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

The Bible suggests 4450 years ago (based on 6000 years of biblical time-line).

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!