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New science and skepticism have grown over the last decade since the theories of global warming and climate change were introduced. Much fear mongering and political posturing have attended the climate crusades rise in the media and public conscience. Green groups and corporate advertising have squeezed every dime out of the green guilt game. Progressive congressmen and the attention-deficit-disordered Obama administration have campaigned to push massively-expensive programs to control the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2). The central theory driving climate legislation is that manmade greenhouse gases (principally CO2) since the 19th-Century industrial revolution are accumulating in the atmosphere at increasing rates so as to raise global temperatures by about 4o F by the end of the 21st Century.
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climate change. Sadly, little media attention has been given to the potential positive impacts of a minor, gradual rise in global temperatures. Let’s look at history’s first global warming in medieval times -- a thousand years before any air pollutants of the industrial revolution. The respected journal Science (Trouet, et al.) provides a new, detailed climate record for the “Medieval Warm Period” (MWP) -- pre-industrial global warming. The researchers present a 947-year-long “North Atlantic Oscillation” analysis that is conveniently omitted from the infamous “hockey stick” graph touted by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other warmists as proof positive of manmade global warming.
climate change. Sadly, little media attention has been given to the potential positive impacts of a minor, gradual rise in global temperatures. Let’s look at history’s first global warming in medieval times -- a thousand years before any air pollutants of the industrial revolution. The respected journal Science (Trouet, et al.) provides a new, detailed climate record for the “Medieval Warm Period” (MWP) -- pre-industrial global warming. The researchers present a 947-year-long “North Atlantic Oscillation” analysis that is conveniently omitted from the infamous “hockey stick” graph touted by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other warmists as proof positive of manmade global warming. From the larger perspective of history, this medieval warming set the global environmental conditions for the Renaissance, or “the age of enlightenment” of the 14th, 15th and 16th Centuries. The Renaissance was the time of great revival and advancement in the human endeavors of art, literature, learning and cultural – the birth of humanism. Ironically, humanism, the first secular-progressive religion, is now being subsumed by secular-progressive environmentalism.
Maybe a modest 21st-Century global warming period would spark a renaissance in credible climate science and political competency.
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