Saturday, February 11, 2012

Arctic blast results in record low temperatures across Northamptonshire - Local - Northampton Chronicle & Echo

Meteorologist Mike Lewis said: “The county has woken to the coldest February morning since 1986 and the second coldest since 1917. A low of -13.0C was recorded at Pitsford with freezing fog and rime creating a classical winter landscape.

Man-made climate change "began 3,500 years ago" | Australian Climate Madness

From The Science is Settled Department comes news that man may have been affecting the climate for far longer than the last 40 years or so. From Scientific American, so you’ll have to wade through the alarmist phraseology:

This week the whole global warming debate changed. Or not | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Did anyone else miss this moment? I must say, Readfearn, whose attempt to debate Monckton is still fondly remembered by sceptics, isn’t the person I’d expect to revolutionise the global warming debate:

Greenland Glacier Cycle Found | The Resilient Earth

Now a new study in Nature Geoscience confirms that ice loss from the Helheim Glacier between 2003 and 2005 was the worst recorded—at least since the last period of rapid ice loss during the late 1930s.

Ice core data shows Greenland warmer in the past | Australian Climate Madness

It appears that in Greenland at least, the current warming cannot be said to be “unprecedented”, since similar magnitudes and rates of warming are present in several previous eras. Man certainly didn’t cause those warming periods, so natural climate change obviously had a significant effect on Greenland temperatures over the past 4000 years.

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