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Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend
New submitter sosume writes "An article in Nature shows that temperatures in Roman times were actually higher than current temperatures. A team lead by Dr. Esper of the University of Mainz has researched tree rings and concluded that over the past 2,000 years, the forcing is up to four times as large as the 1.6W/m^2 net anthropogenic forcing since 1750 using evidence based on maximum latewood density data from northern Scandinavia, indicating that this cooling trend was stronger (0.31C per 1,000 years, ±0.03C) than previously reported, and demonstrated that this signature is missing in published tree-ring proxy records."
this should be good!
You might need to heat up the butter as it looks like it may cool and solidify before eating...
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Apparently reading is hard, it includes temperatures since the industrial revolution. The data, is in the paper. Did you read the paper? And oddly, they seem to mirror the MEP. Well isn't that odd, and yet there's still a downward trend. over the period. Couldn't be that we still don't have a full understanding of everything. Now jokingly, this must have been all those early humans driving cars, and pumping out electronics 2000 years ago. This is just a delayed reaction.
Om, nomnomnom...
Once they eliminate all of the other, non-tree-based lines of evidence, this should finally bust the myth of Northern Scandinavian Warming wide open!
sed "s/SJW.*$/... never mind. I was about to say something stupid, and also, I'm a troglodyte./Ig"
Can we mod it if we hate that damn song? ;)
Are you implying that the Bangladeshi aren't smart enough to get out of the way of a 0.4mm annual rise in ocean levels? Or is it that they are so short they will drown in 18-59cm of water that will rise in the next 90 years? Your post does not make that clear.
Cf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_rise
I think you need to re-evaluate your understanding of sea level rise and any "catastrophes" it may cause. There are loads of antropocentric problems that will arise in the next 100 years as a result of the rise, but people drowning is most decidedly NOT one of them.
It's not the average that matters.
As the level rises, the extremes increase. An inch of increase (depending on the topography of the shore) may result in a 6" extra surge -- once per 10 years.
Otherwise- I completely agree with you. People who build on the shore should expect to move.
Ah yes, the old joke about the statistician who drowned in a lake that averaged 2 inches deep.