Scientists Debunk a Favorite Denier Claim about Climate Change


	Scientists Debunk a Favorite Denier Claim about Climate Change

gaea777

4-6-2009 9:20 AM

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gaea777 says:

amazing, I like to read stuff like this

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4-16-2009 3:44 PM

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Great clip - thanks!

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A favorite claim of the climate change deniers is to point out that in Medieval times, the Vikings built farms in Greenland and Europe was in a warm spell. That, <A href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/reprint/happer_senate_testimony.html">they claim</A>, is evidence that modern global warming is just natural climate variation.
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In the latest issue of the journal Science, scientists <A href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;324/5923/78">put that claim to rest</A>.
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Using natural records going back about 1,000 years, the scientists were able to pinpoint causes of Europe's Medieval warm spell, and they can show that the mechanisms responsible for warmer temperatures in Europe then are not causing the warming seen today.
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	“Those conditions are by far not enough to explain the global warmth we are experiencing,” Trouet said.
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	“By using two drought-sensitive records from remote regions, we were able to reconstruct the mechanism that explains temperature for central Europe,” Trouet said.
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