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Scientists Reconstruct Millennium's Coldest Winter

Posted by timothy on from the it's-only-a-model dept.

Ponca City, We love you writes "In England they called it the Great Frost, while in France it entered legend as Le Grand Hiver, three months of deadly cold that fell over Europe in 1709 ushering in a year of famine and food riots. Livestock died from cold in their barns, chicken's combs froze and fell off, trees exploded and travelers froze to death on the roads. It was the coldest winter in 500 years with temperatures as much as 7 degrees C below the average for 20th-century Europe. Now as part of the European Union's Millennium Project, Scientists are aiming to reconstruct the past 1000 years of Europe's climate using a combination of direct measurements, proxy indicators of temperature such as tree rings and ice cores, and data gleaned from historical documents."

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  1. Frost post by dov_0 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Part of the global warming no doubt...

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  2. Re:So what about global warming ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Global climate change is dangerous.
    A conspiracy between terrorists and the government to force us to buy more gas boilers/air conditioners.

  3. "Proxy indicators"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Blatant euphemism for indirect and highly circumstantial evidence.

    I think I'll use proxy indicators the next time I serve on jury duty... you know - things like race, sex, and religion should all be valid evidence according to EU-sponsored scientists.

  4. thats Unpossible! by night_flyer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    how could they have warmed up without man-made global warming?

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  5. Re:Related to the Maunder Minimum ? by SnarfQuest · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sorry, but according to the global warming experts, the sun has absolutely no effect on the global temperature.

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  6. Re:So what about global warming ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Funny ?

    Yeh. Like the deaths of 180 Australians in unprecendented fires in Victoria this week,
    with all time record temps and winds.

    This subject will bring the know nothing deniers out in force to use innuendo to try and discredit the experts. I just hope it is your family and your house deniers, that suffers for your stupid inbred denial of the bleeding obviousness of climate change.

    The ferocity of these fires was unbelievable, people who have saved their properties from multiple previous fires have died in the attempt this time.

    You could glue 5 deniers together and still not have enough to make a half wit.

    Fucking morons.