If only all those monks had put up solar panels, unplugged all their appliances when not in use, took 2 minute showers, stopped using hair dryers, and gave up their fossil fueled travel
(The Hockey Schtick) A recent paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews reconstructs temperatures in Tibet over the past 2,500 years and finds the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than the current warm period. According to the authors, their data indicate “warmer climatic conditions during the MWP than the current warm period.”
The authors find “the natural climate variability on the northern Tibetan Plateau during the late Holocene might be linked to solar irradiance changes on multi-decadal and centennial timescales.” The paper demonstrates there is nothing unusual, unnatural or unprecedented about either the timing or the degree of warming experienced by the northern Tibetan Plateau over the past century or so.
From the latest edition of the NIPCC Report:
A 2500-Year Temperature History of the Northern Tibetan Plateau
Oh, wait, my bad, Warmists say that previous warm periods were natural, but natural forces can only play an itty bitty tiny miniscule part in the current warm period.
(strange how virtually every reconstruction, along with the real raw data shows that the MWP was warmer than the Modern Warm Period, eh?)
