Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Captain's logs yield climate clues

Just who are the deniers? Just who is it that refuses to consider accumulating evidence to the contrary?
"The logbooks kept by every naval ship, ranging from Nelson’s Victory and Cook’s Endeavour down to the humblest frigate, are emerging as one of the world’s best sources for long-term weather data. The discovery has been made by a group of British academics and Met Office scientists who are seeking new ways to plot historic changes in climate."
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"A preliminary study of 6,000 logbooks has produced results that raise questions about climate change theories. One paper, published by Dr Dennis Wheeler, a Sunderland University geographer, in the journal The Holocene, details a surge in the frequency of summer storms over Britain in the 1680s and 1690s.

Many scientists believe storms are a consequence of global warming, but these were the coldest decades of the so-called Little Ice Age that hit Europe from about 1600 to 1850.

Wheeler and his colleagues have since won European Union funding to extend this research to 1750. This shows that during the 1730s, Europe underwent a period of rapid warming similar to that recorded recently – and which must have had natural origins."

And wonder of wonders, they are actually going to publish it in an academic journal. I guess peer review isn't what it used to be. /sarcasm

h/t Small Dead Animals

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Isn't this just an amazing story? The empirical observations of seamen dead for hundreds of years threaten to derail the hysteria of modern day climate change "science".

Priceless.

August 05, 2008 5:59 pm  
Blogger Louise said...

Indeed. I have a rule of thumb about these things. The harder and more rigidly extreme a leftie is on any particular issue, the more likely it will be proven wrong. Or, to put it another way, if a cause gets hysterical support from the left, you can be sure it's primarily bunk.

August 05, 2008 6:34 pm  

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