History is Clear: Climate Change is Natural, Cyclic

By Bob Ellis on December 14th, 2009

Greenland ice core readings (Source: C3 Headlines) CLICK TO ENLARGE

Today we have more data brought to us by C3 Headlines illustrating the fact that our planet has been much warmer in ages past, long before modern industrial activity, SUVs, coal power plants and the like.

Such things simply weren’t around to conveniently blame for global warming back then (but neither was the full-fledged capitalist system, either).

C3 Headlines also has several graphs which show similar ups and downs over the course of history in various areas of the planet, including data from Greenland, Iceland, Sweden, Austria, Canada, South Africa, Spain, Pakistan, Japan, China, New Zealand, and more. Many of these go back to the era of the Roman Empire and beyond, showing cycles of warming and cooling–and every one of them show periods of warmth much greater than today, with no industrial activity to blame it on.

Also included in these graphs are charts which show the fraudulent “hockey stick” and what readings actually were, and the decline in global temperatures that the Climate Research Unit (aka ClimateGate) tried to hide as revealed in their emails full of global warming monkey business.

Ben-Peter Terpstra goes into greater detail about some of these historical temperature changes at the American Thinker:

Back to the ancient Greeks though: “Greek mythology makes reference to deforestation, flooding, siltation of irrigation channels, salination and the collapse of the Sumerian city-states. Written records dating back 5000 years ago describe declining crop yields and decreasing production of wheat relative to the most salt-tolerant barley. Patches of soil turned white, suggesting salt accumulation on the surface of agricultural lands. The drier conditions made it impossible to flush salt from fields.”
To my way of thinking, history undermines bad science and supports good science. Again, the Woodstock generation’s thirst for specialness is way beyond narcissism. Plimer too recognizes:
“The Mycenaean civilisation fell at the expense of the rise of the Assyrian, Phoenician and Greek civilisations. Records from Troy show that it was cold, with famine around 1259 to 1241 BC and no recovery until 800 BC.”

Terpstra also quotes Ian Plimer, Professor of Mining Geology at The University of Adelaide, Australia, for a somewhat more “recent” downturn in global temperatures:

“Around 540 AD, trees almost stopped growing. Flooded bog oaks and timber from this time have very narrow growth rings. This was a global event because it is also recorded in tree rings from Ireland, England, Siberia, North America and South America. Snow fell in Mediterranean Europe and coastal China and there were savage storms in Scandinavia and South America.”

For about the last 100-150 years or so, the world has been coming out of a cooling period known as the Little Ice Age; recent warming (which has stopped over the last 10 years) has nothing to do with factories, SUVs and power plants. It is normal and natural, and mankind’s petty contributions of “greenhouse gases” from modern industrial activity have no verifiable effect on warming or cooling.

Only an insane, suicidal culture would throw away its freedoms, devastate its economy, hinder energy production, and steal and squander the hard-earned wages of free Americans …all on a flimsy theory that just doesn’t hold water.

Comparing the (discredited) Hockey Stick to History

BBC notices that the world is not getting warmer (hotair.com)
Poll: Americans more skeptical of anthropogenic global warming (hotair.com)
Climate change ’sceptic’ Ian Plimer argues CO2 is not causing global warming (telegraph.co.uk)
Tree ring decline hidden (tech.bl0x.info)
Cap-and-trade will seriously damage gasoline refining (hotair.com)
Coldest winter in a decade coming? (hotair.com)

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