Scientists Reconstruct Millennium's Coldest Winter

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of direct measurements, proxy indicators of temperature such as tree rings and ice cores, and data gleaned from historical documents."

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Re:So what about global warming ?

[MrNaz]

Science has been open source since before you were born. Peer reviewed journals have been the way research (at least non private sector research) gets spread between universities and peer reviewed.

Industry shills like yourself may be learning to be a bit more subtle in the ways of FUDcasting, but know that there will always be people smarter than you who will call you on your BS.