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

I wonder...

[Laurentiu]

Didn't he burned some fossil fuel to complete this research?

Re:I wonder...

[NoSuchGuy]

No it was the other way round:

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Re:fp?

[gilesjuk]

American scientists will find anything they can to continue the American way of life unchanged.

As soon as the US accepts global warming the rest of the world will take notice.

I personally don't believe that all the freak storms and floods I've been seeing over the last few years are unrelated to climate change.

I thank you for 7our time

[Anonymous Coward]

Backwards. To the Ops or any of the are+ 7000 users 5urvival prospects

In other news...

[haxor.dk]

Moles found to be living underground. Film at eleven.

Cartoon network

[filipvh]

Famouse? This sounds suspiciously like something out of a cartoon...

Re:fp?

[Zero Sum]

As soon as the US accepts global warming the rest of the world will take notice.

Troll or typically ignorant Republican? Stupid either way....

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.

Re:Listen to the rhetoric speak

[flyneye]

But it shouldn't matter to GWs oil buddies because every few thousand years this happens,no ones fault.There should be no problem pumping even more oil out of the ground.Of course the viscosity will increase but I don't forsee much difficulty.
Maybe this will quiet the greenpeace baboons.Didn't anyone ever teach them in school that we have climate shifts every few thousand years,naturally?
Hell,I've got oil wells that they won't let me pump but a few silly barrels out of a day.If it gets cold,maybe they'll let me pump enough to actually profit and the greenpeas foos can stay warm.They dare not put any fur or leather to keep warm or the bunny huggers will throw rocks at them and quit helping with protests.What a twisted web they wove.

Re:Oh no!

[smartfart]

Heh, nice sarcasm.

What really bugs me is the steady diet of junk science we get from the tree-hugger crowd these days. Take this article, for instance... it's a logical fallacy to assume that since there may or may not have been an ice age in the distant past, this automatically implies that we are about to have another one, or that we'll all bake to death due to global warming.

Here's an interesting article that gives a common-sense approach to understanding the reality about climate changes, from a sound scientific standpoint.

Oops, I just broke a rule... I just stated that the emperor has no clothes! My apologies :-/

Re:It's called Creation

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah right... you creationists xians keep thinking you are the only ones who right. Guess what, its a lie, creation is a lie, the Jesus you believe in never existed. Don't believe, read the latest research on the matter!

Re:fp?

[Anonymous Coward]

Congratulations. Misinterpretation and inability to comprehend written stats in your manner is indicative of poor education.

The original poster wrote that volcanoes spewed out more gases

You replied with stats on ONLY CO2.

Look at it another way.

OP: "There are more cars than trucks on the road than ever before"
YOU: "Bullshit! There are fewer than 10,000 ford falcons left, less than the number of trucks!"

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.

Re:I'm sorry to say this

[flyneye]

yes,but when they want to ski,thats when we make bank......