Pirate's Cove

Sigh (via Tom Nelson)

A thaw of Iceland’s ice caps in coming decades caused by climate change may trigger more volcanic eruptions by removing a vast weight and freeing magma from deep below ground, scientists said on Friday.
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She and Sigmundsson wrote a 2008 paper in the scientific journal Geophysical Research Letters about possible links between global warming and Icelandic volcanoes.

Anthony Watts has more on the subject. Moving on to slavery

As climate change intensifies, the impact for families to find food, brings desperate measures. Families are now seeking any solution to survive. The selling of daughters into slave markets is, one of the solutions, causing young women , girls to be swept away by what many guess are modern slave traders.

How about those bad Indians?

Early Na­tive Amer­i­cans caused more car­bon di­ox­ide emis­sions than pre­vi­ously thought—and they thus con­tri­but­ed to glob­al warm­ing even be­fore the in­dus­t­ri­al era be­gan, a new study sug­gests.

Somehow, I don’t think they cared about it, as they had other things on their minds

The in­dig­e­nous peo­ples burned trees as part of for­est-manage­ment strat­e­gies that ul­ti­ma­tely led wood­lands to yield more of the nuts and fruit that the peo­ples ate in abun­dance, ac­cord­ing to sci­en­tists. The re­sult: emis­sions of car­bon di­ox­ide, one of the key heat-trapping gas­es blamed by clim­at­ol­ogists for glob­al warm­ing.

Ah. Food. Raising the standards of living. Check. All those things liberal climate alarmists want to significantly reduce in modern society.

In­i­tial­ly, Spring­er and col­la­bo­ra­tors from Uni­vers­ity of Tex­as at Ar­ling­ton and Uni­vers­ity of Min­ne­so­ta were stu­dying his­tor­ic drought cy­cles in North Amer­i­ca us­ing iso­topes, or vari­ants, of car­bon in stal­ag­mites. To their sur­prise, they said, the car­bon rec­ord con­tained ev­i­dence of a ma­jor change in the lo­cal ec­o­sys­tem be­gin­ning at 100 B.C. This in­trigued the team be­cause an ar­che­o­logical dig in a near­by cave had yielded ev­i­dence of a Na­tive Amer­i­can com­mun­ity there 2,000 years ago.

That’s interesting, since a. we have had multiple warming and cooling periods over the last 2,000 years, and b. the Earth had been in the same situation over the last 7,000 years, as the changes from the end of the last ice age slowed down into small oscillations. But, hey, it’s all about Blaming Mankind.

Elsewhere:

• Planet Gore: I thought we were only supposed to care about the long term trends?
• Telegraph: The new climate change defence: ‘Yes, it’s getting colder, but it’s not as cold as it would be without global warming’
• Tom Nelson: Not Again – Yet Another Warmist has to be rescued from Arctic cold