2 Recent Papers Confirm Natural Cycles Are Indisputable, Powerful Climate Drivers

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The University of Bergen in Norway reported 14 February 2017 on the climate in Norway 4000 years ago, when in the summertime it was on average two to three degrees warmer than today. Most glaciers in the country at the time had almost completely melted away and gone. Instead of examining these what for many are unexpected warm phases, the team of authors in the press release chose to focus the…

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March 6, 2017 at 10:29PM

One of greatest mass extinctions was due to an ice age and not global warming

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(h/t Raining Sky) Earth has known several mass extinctions over the course of its history. One of the most important happened at the Permian-Triassic boundary 250 million years ago. Over 95% of marine species disappeared and, up until now, scientists have linked this extinction to a significant rise in Earth temperatures. But researchers from the […]

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March 6, 2017 at 10:22PM

Past Warm Periods in China Helped to Sustain Dynastic Wellbeing

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Paper Reviewed: Yin, J., Fang, X. and Su, Y. 2016. Correlation between climate and grain harvest fluctuations and the dynastic transitions and prosperity in China over the past two millennia. The Holocene 26: 1914-1923.
In their study of climate change impacts on dynastic wellbeing in China over the period 210 BC to AD 1910, Yin et al. (2016) focused on relationships among dynastic transition…

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March 6, 2017 at 10:15PM

The Guardian Exposed in Climate Science Fake News

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More fake news from the Guardian:
Spring is arriving ever earlier in the northern hemisphere. One sedge species in Greenland is springing to growth 26 days earlier than it did a decade ago. And in the US, spring arrived 22 days early this year in Washington DC.

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March 6, 2017 at 10:15PM