Last year humanity lived through the hottest 12 months in at least 125,000 years, reported an hysterical CNN, a frame of mind replicated throughout much of the mainstream media. Scientists have compared 2023’s “climate change fallout” to a “disaster movie”, added the U.S. cable news channel.
All poppycock, needless to say, with a political Net Zero motive, and little if any scientific evidence to back it up.
Accurate temperature records barely started
before the 20th century, and recent measurements by fixed thermometers
have been heavily corrupted by growing urban heat. It is in fact
possible using proxy measurements to get a good idea of general
temperature movements over the last 125,000 years. All the evidence
points to periods of much higher temperatures, notably between 10,000 to
5,000 years ago. The latest science paper examining this trend has just
been published, and it points to summer temperatures at least 1.5°C higher around 5,000 years ago in the eastern Mediterranean, at a time when civilisation was developing rapidly.
It
is not the only paper recently published that suggests there were much
higher temperatures periods in the recent past. The science blog No
Tricks Zone reports that Arctic regions with at least six months of
current sea ice coverage were ice free nearly all year round between
9,000 to 5,000 years ago, and 2°C warmer than today.
Furthermore it was found that temperatures were 7-8°C warmer 130,000 to
115,000 years ago. During the early Holocene from 10,000 years ago it
was so warm that boreal forests expanded northward to Arctic regions
that are today too cold to support anything other than tundra. Polar
bears not only survived without sea ice during the warmer Holocene, but
also the much hotter periods over 100,000 years ago....<<<Read More>>>...