However, its report acknowledged that temperatures in southern Greenland during the 1930s and 1940s were at least as warm as in recent years.
This is what gets me about the whole "global warming" issue- every single time the media tries to make a story about high temperatures or drought part of global warming there are always previous records of the same or higher temps & drought conditions. I don't think man knows enough about climate to know what is going on- no one has been keeping track long enough to have even a baseline much less trends in weather patterns.
This morning the weather predicted heavy clouds for my area and no mention of snow- guess what? It was really snowing for about three hours earlier. I went to various weather sites and they had all missed the forcast- so no surprise they don't understand trends over time.
I remember when I was growing up the so called "consensus" was an impending ice age. I have no idea if the planet will get cooler or warmer-or exactly what will cause it to happen, but I don't think the "experts" do either.