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Arctic temperatures in the 1990s reached their warmest level of any decade in at least 2,000 years. That despite a gradual cooling trend over that time as the Earth cycled further away from the sun. A new study to be published in Science Magazine concludes that that cooling was reversed because of increased emissions of carbon dioxide and other green house gases. The World’s Katy Clark reports.
- BBC animated guide to climate change
- Science Magazine
- 2000 Years of Climate Variablity from Arctic Lakes
What rubbish. This is junk science at its worst. 2000 years is hardly the time frame to look at when considering climate change. Take a look at the Wikipedia entry that shows interglacial temperatures and ice volumes and you will see that there is regular oscillation of temperature that has nothing to do with man. Ther periods are on the order of hundreds of thousands of years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interglacial
Global temperatures have been just as warm and there were no men on the planet to blame.
Agree with NC SCEPTIC 100 per cent. Examination of ice cores by Russian scientists show that CO2 level changes lag behind (come after, follow) temperature changes by 800 years. That would make the the first 800 years of the study irrelevant! Real scientists are sceptics. One examines the possibility of a hypothesis being wrong. The ‘believers’ look only for scraps of data that, to their minds, make it so. While the believers fixate on their obsession science goes out of the window. A more important study would be to see what causes such mass illusory behaviour. Behaviour so perverse that even objective thought escapes those who suffer.