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Tree-rings prove climate was WARMER in Roman and Medieval times than it is now
dailymail. ^ | 11 July 2012 | By Science Reporter

Posted on 07/21/2012 8:40:01 PM PDT by dennisw

How did the Romans grow grapes in northern England? Perhaps because it was warmer than we thought.

A study suggests the Britain of 2,000 years ago experienced a lengthy period of hotter summers than today.

German researchers used data from tree rings – a key indicator of past climate – to claim the world has been on a ‘long-term cooling trend’ for two millennia until the global warming of the twentieth century.

This cooling was punctuated by a couple of warm spells.

These are the Medieval Warm Period, which is well known, but also a period during the toga-wearing Roman times when temperatures were apparently 1 deg C warmer than now.

They say the very warm period during the years 21 to 50AD has been underestimated by climate scientists.

Lead author Professor Dr Jan Esper of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz said: ‘We found that previous estimates of historical temperatures during the Roman era and the Middle Ages were too low.

In general the scientists found a slow cooling of 0.6C over 2,000 years, which they attributed to changes in the Earth’s orbit which took it further away from the Sun.

The study is published in Nature Climate Change.

It is based on measurements stretching back to 138BC.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
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To: steelyourfaith

Ping.


21 posted on 07/21/2012 10:40:26 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: dennisw

Well, this explains a lot about why the Romans built the Appian Way - they needed a paved road for their SUVs!!

That’s why the earth was warmer back then.


22 posted on 07/21/2012 10:41:04 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for white collar criminals!!)
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To: dennisw

The real question should be, how deep will the ice be over Manhattan in the next 20,000 years? It is coming and not all the SUVs on Earth are going to stop it.


23 posted on 07/21/2012 10:52:00 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (6 November, 2012, the day our embarrassment is sent back to Kenya.)
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To: fini
I can't tell you the temperature accurately without looking at a thermometer, so how do they determine the temperature of the earth, when the thermometer had not even been invented yet?

Lots of ways. Tree rings, for one. Evidence of wind patterns such as dust and pollen transport, sea levels, species migration, soil deposits - there's actually quite a few factors that together paint a reasonably good picture of climate for thousands or even hundreds of millions of years before now.

However, if you want to know what the wind chill factor was in central Pangaea @ 20E 40N on January 4th, 210,537,896 BC at 9AM in the morning, you're kinda on your own. Science isn't THAT good.

24 posted on 07/22/2012 12:11:42 AM PDT by Post Toasties (Leftists give insanity a bad name. 0bama: Four years of failure and fingerpointing.)
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To: Post Toasties

Being able to put down citrus groves and vineyards as far north as the Scottish border was another


25 posted on 07/22/2012 6:05:34 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Army Air Corps
Thanx for the ping AAC !
26 posted on 07/22/2012 6:16:33 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (Expel the Occupy White House squatters !!!)
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Thanks BIGLOOK.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


27 posted on 07/22/2012 8:03:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: dennisw
Ah, those nasty Roman gas powered chariots!


28 posted on 07/22/2012 8:20:42 AM PDT by Petrosius
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To: Petrosius

Wow some stout looking motors on those rigs....


29 posted on 07/22/2012 8:22:56 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: garjog

Not to mention the exhaust fumes from all those chariots.


30 posted on 07/22/2012 8:23:47 AM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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To: dennisw

But but but but it was real hot a couple weeks ago.


31 posted on 07/23/2012 6:28:07 AM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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