50 Shades of Climate Change

We are being told of record world temperatures due to man-made global warming. Is it truly the hottest time in human existence?

Thermometers paint a picture of world temperature for over the last 150 years, but what do fossils and ice-cores tell us about the last 10,000?

How were Germans growing olives on the Rhine river 2000 years ago? What were temperate oak forests doing in the middle of Norway and Sweden 8000 years ago? When did the Vikings have cattle stamping around Greenland? Who was the King whose army galloped across the Baltic Sea to invade Denmark?

And has temperature really been dancing in step with rocketing carbon dioxide increases? Or is there something else going on?

Told by Dr Howard Brady, Alumnus Scientist of the Year, Northern Illinois University, and who undertook four expeditions to Antarctica with the US Office of Polar Programs.

Dr Brady is the author of 'Mirrors and Mazes: A guide to the climate debate'.

[georgeapplegate]

For me the tide gauges are the best long term thermometer record we have. They show a constant rise for over a century, which both comprises glacial melt and ocean warming. Surface temperature measurements are inherently regional and dependent on the temperature of the atmosphere whose heat capacity is only 1/1000 that of the oceans.

What is your source for the ppm/decade CO2 increase? CDIAC data suggests that only 3% of all human CO2 emissions occurred in the centuries before 1900. It is thus difficult for me to see how these emissions could have contributed more than 2-3ppm by 1900.

[johndoran]

Best introduction for non-scientists like myself to the warming/climate hoax is Michael Crichton's novel, State of Fear.
Best political/scientific site & books: drtimball.com top climatologist.
Put overpopulation in the good Dr. Tim's search box to find the 1%'s motivation.
Best science book: Heaven and Earth global warming: the missing science.

Best wishes & hope this helps, Dr. Brady.