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[PATRICKHENRY REPUBLIC]

I would like to get permission to post a question to other Freepers. TY.

[NicknamedBob]

It's very interesting. I like the way they use real science and mathematical analysis to show that Al Gore has it exactly backwards.

The oceans, it is well known, are sinks for carbon dioxide. What would happen if you heated them?

They would release carbon dioxide. Which they have been doing. That is why the CO₂ levels have been rising.

CO₂ peaks follow temperature peaks by about eight hundred years.

[fanfan]

Where are you now?

[fanfan]

I know what you mean.

I slack off more though.

;-)

[fanfan]

So what was happening 800 years ago, and what happened after that?

[NicknamedBob]

I'd guess he's somewhere in Switzerland, trundling another wheelbarrow load of gold out of the vaults.

[fanfan]

It's 100 degrees in Switzerland?

[NicknamedBob]

"So what was happening 800 years ago, and what happened after that?"

The Medieval Warming Period lasted from 1330 AD to 1600 AD.

1330 + 800 = 2130

I don't think this brief warming period was the cause of the oceans releasing carbon dioxide today, but it could be a minor factor, and it happened about eight hundred years ago.

After that it got cold again. Really cold, actually.

[NicknamedBob]

"It's 100 degrees in Switzerland?"

Gold is heavy. He's sweating. I'd offer to help, but I doubt he would trust me.

[Tax-chick]

Hardly ever. When I was in the insurance business, we used to get free calendars from the Swiss Reinsurance Company, and all the pictures except July and August were of deep, deep snow.

They were sought-after calendars - in a Texas September, the snow picture would make you feel a little less hot.

[fanfan]

It's that really cold part that worries me.

[sionnsar]

So what was happening 800 years ago, and what happened after that?

In 1207:

Events

* Stephen Langton consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury June 17 by Pope Innocent III.
* Pope Innocent III declares for Philip of Swabia as Holy Roman Emperor, a reversal of his previous support for Otto IV.
* King John issued letters patent creating the new Borough of Liverpool

Births

* September 8 - King Sancho II of Portugal
* September 30 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian poet and Sufi mystic (died 1273)
* October 1 - King Henry III of England (died 1272)
* Henry II, Duke of Brabant (died 1248)
* Elisabeth of Hungary, daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and saint (died 1231)
* Philip I of Savoy (died 1285)

Deaths

* January 4 - Simon II, Duke of Lorraine
* June 17 - Daoji, Chinese buddhist monk (born 1130)
* Amaury of Bene, heretic
* Kaloyan, Tsar of Bulgaria
* Xin Qiji, Chinese poet (born 1140)

Monarchs/Presidents

* France - Philippe II, Auguste King of France (reigned from 1180 to 1223)
* Mongol Empire - Genghis Khan, Mongol Khan (from 1206 to 1227)
* Venice - Pietro Ziani Doge of Venice (ruled from 1205 to 1229)
* England - John King of England (reigned from 1199 to 1216)
* Latin Empire of Constantinople - Henry of Flanders (reigned from 1205 to 1216)
* Pope - Innocent III (pope from 1198 to 1216)

After that, everything since! *\;-)

[NicknamedBob]

Maybe this will help too.

As I said, really cold ...

[sionnsar]

I tried to find something on ocean temps over time, but couldn't find anything.

[fanfan]

Ya, but now we have global warming, global cooling, climate change or something, now.

[Tax-chick]

The last Thames frost fair was around 1818, iirc. Can you imagine being that cold all the time? Eeek!

Of course, some people are Canadian, but still ...

[Tax-chick]

Yes, either warming or cooling or both. I'll bet Daylight Savings Time causes it!

[fanfan]

Thanks for that other post.

The ocean temps 800 years ago would just tell us what the climate was like 800 years before that.

;-)

[fanfan]

It's not all the time.

We come inside to thaw out every once in a while.

[fanfan]

We need to adopt DST year round.

I have to serve dinner.

Have a great evening TC!

[Tax-chick]

LOL! Imagine heating with open coal fires. Black lung disease all around ...