More Evidence Of That Earlier Global Warming That The IPCC Ironed Out

Posted on Fri 11/01/2013 by PA Pundits - International

By Andrew Bolt ~

For years this now-discredited graphic was everywhere, including in an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, allegedly proving the world hadn’t been this hot for thousands of years, and note that the scale is in degrees Celsius, and is marked in fractions of one degree

At some time or another, most people will have seen the hockey stick – the iconic graph which purports to show that after centuries of stable temperatures, the second half of the twentieth century saw a sudden and unprecedented warming of the globe. This was caused, we were told, by mankind burning fossil fuels and releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. For a while, the hockey stick was everywhere – unimpeachable evidence that mankind was damaging the planet – an impact that would require drastic measures to reverse. The stick’s most famous outing however was just a couple of years ago when it made a headlining appearance in Al Gore’s drama-documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. The revelation of the long, thin graph with its dramatic temperature rise in the last few decades, and the audience gasps that accompanied it, is something of a key moment for many environmentalists.

But a new paper confirms the Medieval Warm Period was actually warmer than today, and not just in Europe and not just on land:

We show that water masses linked to North Pacific and Antarctic intermediate waters were warmer by 2.1 ± 0.4°C and 1.5 ± 0.4°C, respectively, during the middle Holocene Thermal Maximum than over the past century. Both water masses were ~0.9°C warmer during the Medieval Warm Period than during the Little Ice Age and ~0.65° warmer than in recent decades.

Andrew Bolt is a journalist and columnist writing for The Herald Sun in Melbourne Victoria Australia.

Andrew Bolt’s columns appear in Melbourne’s Herald Sun, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph and Adelaide’s Advertiser. He runs the most-read political blog in Australia and hosts Channel 10’s The Bolt Report each Sunday at 10am. He is also heard from Monday to Friday at 8am on the breakfast show of radio station MTR 1377, and his book Still Not Sorry remains very widely read.

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