Saturday, December 12, 2009

How Our Temperatures Stack Up In the Last 10,000 Years

This is one of the most interesting graphs I've seen, ever.  Temperature is on the vertical axis, years on the horizontal.


It is the temperature record in Greenland over the past 10,000 years.  And it shows our current temperatures to be quite normal in the context of that time.  However, look at the full article to see what the temperatures have been for the last several hundred thousands years, and be ready to be very surprised.

Okay, I can't wait to show you.  Look below to see the last 50,000 years:


That is what an ice age looks like.  And needless to say, we were not burning fossil fuels in 10,000 BC to cause that global warming. 

It is becoming very clear to me there is a whole lot that we don't understand about climate change and global warming.  Thinking that our current climate models, even if they weren't based on 'fudged' data, can accurately forecast the next 100 years is, I'm beginning to think, quite arrogant.

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