Global Warming Proven Natural Not Man-Made Once Again
All the evidence suggests that the planet was about a degree warmer during the Medieval Warming Period; and that there is nothing unnatural or unprecedented about modern “climate change”.
NOTE: It is quite gratifying that Jack Wheeler's “Solar Warming”, published here twelve years ago, continues to be proven correct. — RDM
by James Delingpole
August 26, 2017
Most global warming is natural, and even if there had been no Industrial Revolution, current global temperatures would be almost exactly the same as they are now, a new study has found.
The paper, by Australian scientists John Abbot and Jennifer Marohasy, published in GeoResJ uses the latest big data technique to analyze six 2,000 year-long proxy temperature series from different geographic regions.
“Proxies” are the markers scientists use – tree rings, sediments, pollen, etc – to try assess global temperature trends in the days before the existence of thermometers.
All the evidence suggests that the planet was about a degree warmer during the Medieval Warming Period than it is now; and that there is nothing unnatural or unprecedented about late 20th century and ea…