Climate Denial Crock of the Week - Medieval Warming?

[greenman3610]

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A favorite canard of the deniers is the myth of a global Medieval warming, warmer than
today. But what does the Science say?

[Turbineguy]

1. Those Vikings were cleverly

filmed in such a way that they blocked the view of the cooling towers of a number of electrical utilities and those lookout towers are really oil drilling rigs.

Also, those boats were really gasoline powered. They wear their furs inside out to be politically correct and not piss off the then powerful animal rights lobby.

In that period of time the world used even more than the 84 million barrels of oil per day we do today.

It is well known that the Middle Ages are romanticized so people these days believe that life then was short and brutish. Not so, those folks lived in the lap of luxury.

See? Now that wasn't so hard to understand was it?

[greiner3]

2. A few years ago;

I had the honor of attending a lecture by one of the researchers from IPCC; the UN body that was awarded the Nobel Prize. I recently earned my BS in Evolution and Ecology from Ohio State Univ and can say from knowledge that our children and their children will suffer from the terrible choices that our culture keeps on choosing. I attended another lecture that predicts that all maple trees will become locally extinct within the US within this generation. That's just the start and is included as an inference. I cry for my granddaughter at nights sometime.

[Fovea]

3. Read Jean Gimpel's The Medieval Machine

A single forge, in the pre coal era of Engaland's metal industry consumed 10 acres of woodland in the form of charcoal per week.

Coal was mostly sea coal gleaned from beaches for a lot of the middle ages in England, but as the 14th century required an immense leap forward in metal fabrication
the woodlands had been stripped already.

Thus, foundry work went from being carbon neutral, particulate positive to both particulate and carbon positive. The steam engine was in fact developed from a crude piston steam pump.
The widespread conversion to coal for domestic heating in the beginning of the eighteenth C. was the start of our modern coal spike.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

You can see the temp curves for the warm spell and the ice age here, and compare it to the current era.
The mini ice age corresponds to a period of maximum deforestation in Europe.

Climate is the earth's effort to distribute energy from the equator to the poles. It responds to a host of factors from the micro to planetary size.