If we did, that would be a good thing, would it not? Remember the 75 million killed by the Black Plague during the beginning of the last cool period? How about all the wars, famine, strife? And how Mankind jumped ahead in technology, life expansion, medicine, women’s rights, and so forth during this warm period?
Pollen data shows humans reversed natural global cooling
Current temperatures are hotter than at any time in the history of human civilization
That subhead is astounding. Human civilization has charitably been around for 6,000 years, and modern humans for around 200,000 years. Can they prove it has never been hotter? Meh, that doesn’t matter to cultists, it’s all about the Narrative.
In order to understand today’s global warming, we need to understand how Earth’s temperatures varied in the past. How does the rapid warming we see now compare with past natural climate changes? Also, how long have humans been having an impact on the climate? These are some questions that can be answered through paleoclimate studies. Paleoclimate research uses natural measurements of the Earth’s temperature. Clever scientists are able to estimate how warm or cold the Earth was far back in time, way before we had thermometers.
An estimate is not hard data.
What the authors found was very interesting. Using data from 642 sites across North America and Europe, the temperatures they found closely matched those expected from computer simulations. They found that throughout most of the Holocene period (the last ~11,000 years), the Earth was warming very slightly. Only in the last ~2000 years has the Earth been in a cooling period (which probably would have continued except that human emissions of greenhouse gases have now reversed the cooling).
Probably? So, they don’t actually know? Hmph.
The authors attempted to put the recent warming (last century or so) into context. They found that the recent temperatures are much higher than temperatures over the past 11,000 years. In fact, according to their calculations, 2016 was warmer than 99.41% of all simulated Holocene years.
So, this is all based on computer models?
This finding is profound. First of all, it means that human greenhouse gas emissions were easily able to overturn what should be a natural cooling trend. Second, the warming we have caused is far outside of the natural range.
Which is funny, since Warmists tend to blame nature when their prognostications fail to materialize.
We have now pushed the Earth’s environment outside of where it should be. There are consequences for this disruption. Those consequences will include significant sea level rise, changes to rain/drought patterns, acidification of ocean waters, and a warmer atmosphere and ocean. There is still time to stop some of the coming climate change, but we are rapidly running out of time. The longer we delay, the worse things will get.
Right! Let’s get back to the time we all lived in huts with no electricity, had unreliable food, women died a lot during child birth, and we all prayed to the gods for a good harvest and pleasant weather.
