[Francohio]

Memo to Al Gore and the Green Party

[Sir Gawain]

Got a direct link?

[marron]

Am I mistaken in recalling that the Vikings settled Greenland when it was relatively "green", and disappeared after the "little ice age" set in, due apparently to isolation, disease, and possibly eskimo attack?

[RippleFire]

bump

[Sam Cree]

Interesting article. I'm under the impression that the information is more or less common knowledge, but I guess that doesn't stop the global warming grant seekers.

[lelio]

A professor of mine summed up the greenies position as someone that's never been the beech taking tide measures every hour in the morning, and predicting that in two weeks the world will be underwater. When you're dealing with data from the last 100 years of the earth's billion year life span you shouldn't go out making predictions.

[Bommer]

Global Warming is the biggest crock prepetuated on the World! And we can thank dear old Maggie Thatcher for it!

[the-ironically-named-proverbs2]

ping

[jocon307]

"...today's "unprecedented" temperatures are simply the result of examining temperature change over too short a period of time."

This is the point I've been trying to make about this for a while, myself. I mean, tree-rings and all are very nice, but how many 500 year old trees are there, in Europe, especially. And you have to cut the tree down to study its rings, no? I mean, really, when was the thermometer invented, anyway? When did we start keeping regular records of weather, accurate or not? Were there monks who kepts logs, even without measuring devices, "it's hot today, it's cold today, it snowed today, etc."? My understanding is that weather "records" go back about 125 years at this point. I'm happy to be enlightened by any knowledgable freepers out there.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: Global Warming: Medieval Era Hotter than Today

Which explains:

"One more 'Are we there yet?'
and I'm going medieval on your a$$!"

Want a break from war news? Go to the Stark Trek Freeper Post or the New Stark Trek Website for a laugh or two. Then come back refreshed and loaded for bear!

[BOBTHENAILER]

Memo to Al Gore and the Green Party

I'm quite certain the warming during this period was due to the heavy reliance on 4 Leg drive vehicles, commonly referred to then as HUV's (horse utility vehicles).

In addition the extreme use of wood burning for heat and cooking could have easily been avoided and saved the planet. Then again, its still here.....go figure.

[chaosagent]

"He added that there were also doubts about the reliability of temperature proxies such as tree rings: "They are not able to capture the recent warming of the last 50 years," he said."

Could it possibly be that the reason they don't is that there really hasn't been any warming in the last fifty years?

[aruanan]

Claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research which shows that the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages.

See Thomas Gale Moore's Global Warming: a Boon for Humans and Other Animals and other papers on the site at the Hoover Institution for more on this. The Medieval Climate Optimum didn't occur simultaneously throughout the world. As it occurred, civilization flourished from Europe to China.

[rwfromkansas]

I have known this for a long time.

This is hardly a new revelation, though this article tries to make it sound like it.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research which shows that the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages.

This is not new research!!! After about a helf dozen paragraphs on the global warming crap, the reader is finally told that this new research is ...

[a] review of more than 240 scientific studies has shown that today's temperatures are neither the warmest over the past millennium, nor are they producing the most extreme weather - in stark contrast to the claims of the environmentalists.

[blam]

Middle Ages Were Warmer Than Today, say Scientists

[weikel]

Claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research which shows that the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages.

Its f***ing April and there is snow on the ground here. We really need to increase greenhouse gas production in this country.

[TheJollyRoger]

There you go...
Screwing up the pinko-commie-green-socialist massive-government-expansion agenda...by quoting
facts.

The inuendo, ignorance and outright lies of the
howling left-wing mob have been good enough for
them so far.

Why confuse the morally-bankrupt weak-minded
loonies with facts?

[Cacique]

None of this matters one iota. The environmentalist movement is not a "scientific" movement but a political one. They have been manufacturing or skewing studies to promote their agenda which is the destruction of capitalism and it's associated democracy. Their entire objective is the promotion of socialism on a global scale. They failed in their promotion of "scientific" socialism. Now they are promoting another "scientific" approach towards the same end.

Never mind that socialism is a failed system. Socialists and communists aren't interested in progress, they are interested in control.

[technochick99]

I didn't know there were Republicans to blame for this back then!

[jpl]

Areas throughout the northeaast are expected to get 6-8 inches of snow today.