A new revelation about our climate

A new revelation about our climate

New data from drilling in the ice cores proves the exact opposite of what climate alarmists have been saying.

Bill Ponton for American Thinker

There are many historical examples of scientific evidence being uncovered, but not fully recognized for its significance. Gregor Mendel published his work on inheritance in 1866, showing clear numerical patterns in how traits passed from one generation to the next. The paper largely sat unnoticed for decades before being rediscovered around 1900, when it became foundational to genetics.

Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson detected persistent microwave noise in 1964, and initially treated it as an annoying background signal. It turned out to be relic radiation from the early universe, one of the strongest pieces of evidence for the Big Bang.

In paleontology and biology, specimens are often collected and stored for decades before a new technique or new theory reveals their importance. A fossil may sit in a drawer until someone realizes it belongs to a new species, or fills a major evolutionary gap.

Now we have another example. The EPICA and Vostok Antarctic ice cores were drilled over twenty years ago, and analysis of the temperature and CO2 datasets derived from them has provided fodder for numerous papers. Climate change advocates had hoped that it would provide the proof they needed that rising CO2 level caused rising temperature, but instead it showed rising CO2 level lagging rising temperature with cause and effect the reverse of what they wanted.

However, that disappointment did not stop Michael Mann, the hockey stick creator, or Bill Nye the Science Guy, from continuing to assert that the recent rise in global temperature is unprecedented. Now, that too turns out to be untrue. Like an old fossil that sat unexamined for years, the ice core data had more to teach us.

Recently, Professor Les Hatt of Kingston University took a fresh look at it and uncovered a pattern within that no one else had noticed. He discovered that a rise of 1.1°C in a century is “not unusual in the current interglacial.” In fact, 16% of the centuries since the end of the last ice age show a rise at least as big as the current century and none of these could have been affected by anthropogenic action. (Here is a link to his paper.)

Will the climate catastrophists now hide in shame? Never. Climate catastrophism will keep staggering along like a zombie. Maybe, we can just herd it into a remote reserve where it can’t do any further damage to the economy or culture—a place where tired and spent ideas from an earlier era retreat. A place called academia. 

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