Major Climate Change 5,200 Years Ago Could Repeat

An anonymous reader writes "The climate was altered suddenly some 5,200 years ago with severe impacts. Famouse glaciologist professor Lonnie Thompson have found clues that show history repeating itself. Thompson has spent his career trekking to the far corners of the world to find remote ice fields and then bring back cores drilled from their centers. Within those cores are the records of ancient climate from across the globe. He outlined his fears today at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. 'The evidence clearly points back to this point in history and to some event that occurred. It also points to similar changes occurring in today's climate as well,' he said."

Comments

Re:Old News

[Dickydoouk]

Isn't this when the biblical flood occured. What else explains why there are huge ammounts of fresh frozen water in the middle of salt water???

Re:How convenient for the scaremongers

[Cally]

>>What's interesting, is that global warming might trigger an ice age
>>

> How convenient for the environmental alarmists. Now any weather
> event, hot or cold, can be used as "evidence" for further
> scaremongering.
>

This is utter nonsense - a troll in fact. Climate models are not whipped up on the back of an envelope - if they were, any moron like you could get themselves a Nobel Prize knocking the theory or models down. Hasn't happened, you know why that is? Go on, take a wild guess.

> Guess what folks, there were floods and hurricanes and blizzards
> before humans ever existed.

And this has... what, exactly, to do with climate change? It's what those of us who can read and think call a logical fallacy. Your statement is irrelevant to the question at hand.

Before the first caveman learned to tame fire, Earth's temperature and climate varied in ways that dwarf today's minor fluctuations.

The point is that all the models and evidence we have strongly points to this no longer being the case in a few decades' time. The death of, say, 4 billion people probably wouldn't affect the surivival of the species - does that mean we should engage in all-out thermonuclear war because a few billion corpses won't matter in the long run?

You, sir, are a moron and a troll.

Dogtag wags the dog.

[Doc Ruby]

If only Michael Moore had made a quick sequel to Farenheit 9/11, in which Bush is re-"elected" by stealing Ohio this time, no one would have believed it, and it would never have happened.

Re:The Religion of Conservatives

[Ranger]

Environmentalism (as opposed to conservation) has deteriorated into a religion

That's Ok. Conservatism has been taken over by religion. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. George W. Bush is arguably the most religious president in history. I'll bet I can point to more conservative churches than you can point to environmentalist churches.

They can't possibly be conservatives anyway. Why? They don't seem to be conserving energy or resources or nature or government.

sit back and watch the zealot fireworks show.

The only people that are bigger zealots than the Bush administration are Israel's gov't. at #2 and Al Qaeda at #1. And boy oh boy are they putting on a helluva fireworks show! Environmentalists are a distant #4.