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Inside an Antarctic Time Machine
Posted by coby on September 30, 2010 Most of us interested in climate science understand the uniqueness and importance of deep ice cores. It is truly a remarkable record of many aspects of past climate including dust, methane, sea level proxies and carbon dioxide. The video below (a YouTubed TED Talk)is a very fascinating look at what it takes to retrieve one.
We Are Just Recovering From the LIA
Posted by coby on December 27, 2006 This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic. Objection: Today’s warming is just a recovery from the Little Ice Age. Answer:
No Past, No Present
Posted by coby on April 27, 2006 This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic. Objection: Climate science can’t even fully explain why the climate did what it did in the past. How can they then claim they know what is going on…
Historically CO2 Never Causes Temperature Change
Posted by coby on April 25, 2006 This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic. Objection: In the geological record it is clear that CO2 does not trigger climate changes. Why should it be any different now? Answer:
Global Warming Is Nothing New
Posted by coby on March 25, 2006 This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic. Objection: Global Warming has been going on for the last 20,000 years. Answer:
Vineland Was Full Of Grapes
Posted by coby on March 25, 2006 This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic. Objection: Newfoundland was so warm in the Medieval Warm Period that when the Vikings landed they called it Vineland and brought boatloads of grapes back to Europe. Answer:
Greenland Used to be Green
Posted by coby on March 25, 2006 This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic. Objection: Greenland used to be a lovely hospitable island when the Vikings settled it. It was not until the Little Ice Age that it got so cold they…
Geological History Does not Support CO2′s Importance
Posted by coby on March 25, 2006 This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic. Objection: If you look back over the last 600 million years you see that there really is not much correlation between temperatures and CO2 levels. Clearly CO2 is…
This is Just a Natural Cycle
Posted by coby on February 25, 2006 This is just one of dozens of responses to common climate change denial arguments, which can all be found at How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic. Objection: The current warming is just part of a natural cycle. Answer: