Say, what caused this to happen? This is how you take a perfectly reasonable scientific research project and make it into a doomsday cult piece
Ancient Earth experienced abrupt climate swings without polar ice, study finds
Professor Chengshan Wang of the China University of Geosciences led an international research team examining sediment cores from China’s Songliao Basin from about 83 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous, ScienceDaily reported.
At the time, the planet had very high carbon dioxide levels and almost no polar ice.
Many researchers had tied abrupt climate swings mainly to large ice sheets growing and melting. That view fit the last Ice Age. Greenland warmed by up to 16 degrees Celsius within decades, and repeated pulses of icebergs disrupted circulation in the North Atlantic.
But the new study points to a different mechanism of slow changes in Earth’s orbit and axial wobble.
So, wait, it was totally natural? I didn’t think that was possible, per Cult Of Climastrology dogma
The Late Cretaceous may offer one of the best natural comparisons for a much warmer world.
“During the Late Cretaceous, atmospheric CO2 levels reached about 1,000 parts per million — comparable to projections for the end of this century,” said Michael Wagreich, a paleoclimatologist at the University of Vienna, as reported by ScienceDaily.
If global temperatures continue rising, understanding how climate systems behaved under those conditions before could help scientists better anticipate risks.
Tired of that data on global warming?
King Donny has the cure!!
The Trump administration is moving to dismantle an ocean observation system consisting of more than 900 instruments in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Data supplied by the system has been used to study key Atlantic currents that increasingly appear in danger of collapse as the climate warms.
Just days after President Trump fired the independent board overseeing the National Science Foundation, the NSF announced the “removal of all in-water infrastructure” belonging to the Ocean Observatories Initiative at sites along the coasts of Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and North Carolina, and in the waters between Greenland and Iceland. Officials say the instruments will be recovered over the next 15 months.
No data? No problem?
The rumor is Donny wants to ban thermometers next!!