Little Ice Age: Big Chill (History Channel's "Inconvenient Truth" About Global Cooling)

History Channel ^ | August 31, 2006

[Mike Darancette]

Wait a minute! If we had unusual global cooling in previous centuries, then wouldn't our current "global warming" really be called getting back to normal?

According to ABC mentioning facts like that are equivalent to denying the Holocaust.

[AmusedBystander]

Unless it was continental plate tectonics that pushed it up out of the water.

Yes, you would expect that question to be answered by the program and when I asked I got no response from the TV. However, I doubt that would be the case with the Australian plate.

[Constitution Day]

Good book, BUMP.

[SunkenCiv]

There was a Little Ice Age. Of course, we can only go by the written accounts of how much colder it was, including the accounts of polar bear attacks in Iceland (the bears crossed the frozen Atlantic from Greenland); by the abandoned farmsteads at higher altitudes and higher latitudes than are viable today; by the drop in sealevel after the Medieval Warming period...

[SunkenCiv]

And wild grapes survive where cultivated varieties won't.

[SunkenCiv]

Just another leftist website, which is appropriate, because global warming is political in origin and sustained by politics -- and it has no scientific basis.

[SunkenCiv]

During the Roman warming period, grapes were cultivated in Britain. But the Roman cooling came on not too long after its conquest by Claudius.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, I wholeheartedly agree. The weird part is, its author seems to support the New Lysenkoism (that humans are the cause of climate change), but everything in the book says otherwise. That's a consequence of the reaction to one of his previous books, I suppose.

[Conservative Goddess]

Evil Diesel SUV PING!

[Constitution Day]

That's a consequence of the reaction to one of his previous books, I suppose.

I believe I read that book too, but you are right about the contradictory nature of the author's prior work and commentary vs. Little Ice Age.

My wife picked that book out for me.
I seldom go to the library anymore, she has such a great record for picking out books I will absolutely love.

[Badray]

Bump

[Libloather]

END GLOBAL COOLING!

[SunkenCiv]

:')

[Little Fat Historian]

Wild grapes (vitis riparia & vitis labrusca) still grow in Quebec, all along the St. Lawrence. They are much more cold-tolerant than European grapes. Native N. American grapes in no way indicate a warm climate at that time (or the present time, either.)