Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Cold Weather Silences The Climate Media
A couple a days ago I reported on how the German media has hardly been reporting on global warming. Read here.

That should be no surprise because it’s been cold in Germany over the last 3 months, and so reporting on warming planet would only draw chuckles from the public. After all, August was cool and September in Germany was a 0.9″ C colder than normal – the 26th coldest September since 1900, according to the German Weather Service. Many have been heating their homes for 2 months already.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Physicist: Global Warming 1980-2008 caused by Sun, not Man
Dr. Borchert finds from satellite measurements that global warming between about 1980 to 2008 was "not anthropogenic but caused by natural activities of the Sun’s surface."
PhysOrg Mobile: New findings could sway thought on climate change
Scientists look to that period because the magnitude of warming seen then, about 10-15 degrees Fahrenheit, is similar to the warming expected across the globe over the next century or two. Scientists are trying to better understand the consequences of this ancient warming in hopes of being able to better predict the consequences of future warming.

The ancient period of global warming was marked by dramatic changes, Secord said. The composition of forests changed as plant species moved northward in North America by as much as 900 miles and some microorganisms in the oceans went extinct. Never-before-seen mammals like the first true primates and the ancestors of horses also began arriving in North America as high-latitude land bridges warmed and became hospitable.
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"Many scientists have thought that warming was the direct result of the release of this light carbon, but we found evidence from stable isotopes that warming actually preceded the release of this light carbon," Secord said. "This implies that there were two sources of warming."
YouTube - Aahan's play on Global Warming

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