Climate History  by Roger King  

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. World History

Introduction

In Science, Ignorance is not Bliss  by Walter Cunningham    Saying the Earth is warming is to state the obvious. Since the end of the ice age, the Earth’s temperature has increased approximately 16 degrees Fahrenheit and sea levels have risen a total of 300 feet. That is certain and measurable evidence of warming, but it is not evidence of AGW—human-caused warming. 

 

World History

Global warming: Where is the heat and science?   by Gary S. Urich   August 6, 2008   An in-depth study released by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine states:

“The average temperature of the Earth has varied within a range of about 3 degrees Celsius during the past 3,000 years. It is currently increasing as the Earth  recovers from a period that is known as the Little Ice Age. ...

“Compiled U.S. surface temperatures have increased about 0.5 degrees Celsius per century, which is consistent with other historical values of 0.4 to 0.5 degrees Celsius per century during the recovery from the Little Ice Age. ... Three intermediate trends are evident, including the decreasing trend used to justify fears of ‘global cooling’ in the 1970s.    

Global Warming, Global Myth  by Edmund Contoski   In the last 1.6 million years there have been 63 alternations between warm and cold climates, and no indication that any of them were caused by changes in carbon dioxide levels. A recent study of a much longer period (600 million years) shows — without exception — that temperature changes precede changes in carbon dioxide levels, not the other way around. As the earth warms, the oceans yield more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, because warmer water cannot hold as much carbon dioxide as colder water.    
 

2400 Year Cycle

A 2400 year solar cycle?  by William J Pitterle in the American Thinker April 24, 2008   By employing celestial mechanics using the 4 most influential planets revolving around the sun, the authors determine a number of repeating cycles -- a 2402 year cycle, a number of 178 year periods within the 2402 years, and a unique 370 year period also within the 2402 year cycle.  They discovered "ordered" and "disordered" motions of the center of mass within the 178 year periods. 
Of interest to us right now is that we are entering (since 1985, and going until 2040) one of these periods of "disordered" motion.  What is most interesting is that the last four "disordered" periods coincided with the "Wolf", "Sporer", "Maunder", and "Dalton" climate minimums.   

Read the sunspots Timothy R. Patterson at the Financial Post   June 20, 2007   Climate stability has never been a feature of planet Earth. The only constant about climate is change; it changes continually and, at times, quite rapidly. Many times in the past, temperatures were far higher than today, and occasionally, temperatures were colder. As recently as 6,000 years ago, it was about 3C warmer than now. Ten thousand years ago, while the world was coming out of the thou-sand-year-long "Younger Dryas" cold episode, temperatures rose as much as 6C in a decade -- 100 times faster than the past century's 0.6C warming that has so upset environmentalists.

Arguments that Prove that Climate Change is driven by Solar Activity and not by CO2 Emission   by OnTheWeb: Dr. Gerhard Löbert   May 26, 2008   In the temperature trace of the past 10 000 years based on glaciological evidence, the recent decades have not displayed any anomalous behaviour. In two-thirds of these 10 000 years, the mean temperature was even higher than today. Shortly before the last ice age the temperature in Greenland even increased by 15 degrees C in only 20 years. All of this without any man-made CO2 emission!    

A dangerous climate by Bob Carter  April 10, 2007  For more than 90% of recent geological time the cores show that earth has been colder than today.    ...  our most accurate depiction of atmospheric temperature over the last 25 years comes from satellite measurements (FIG. 2) rather than from the likely warm-biased ground thermometer record. Once the effects of non-greenhouse warming (El Nino) and cooling (volcanic eruptions) events are discounted, these measurements indicate an absence of significant global warming since 1979, i.e. over the very period that human carbon dioxide emissions have been increasing rapidly.  

Global Warming Tax Hikes Headed Your Way  by Paul Driessen   Saturday, April 19, 2008   Our planet has experienced numerous climate shifts, they point out, including prolonged ice ages, a 400-year Medieval Warm Period and a 500-year Little Ice Age. Climate scientists still don’t understand what caused these events – or the temperature roller coaster of the last century, as carbon dioxide levels rose steadily: temperatures climbed from 1910 to 1945, fell between 1945 and 1975, and increased again from 1975 to 1998, notes Syun-Ichi Akasofu, founding director of the International Arctic Research Center.

Five of the ten hottest years in US history were in the 1920s and 1930s. Average global temperatures stabilized in 1998, and then fell 1.1 degrees F the past twelve months, satellite measurements show. Ice core data demonstrate that, over thousands of years, rising temperatures preceded higher atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, by hundreds of years – the exact opposite of climate chaos hypotheses. Interior Greenland and Antarctica appear to be gaining ice mass; they’re certainly not melting.   

Sampling of Inconvenient Questions for Climate Fear Promoters  by EPW Blog   August 23, 2008  Ivy League geologist Dr. Robert Giegengack is a professor of earth and environmental science at the University of Pennsylvania. Giegengack noted that the history the last one billion years on the planet reveals “only about 5% of that time has been characterized by conditions on Earth that were so cold that the poles could support masses of permanent ice.” Giegengack also noted “for most of Earth’s history, the globe has been warmer than it has been for the last 200 years. It has rarely been cooler.” - (Link Here & Here)