Ice Core data

[Trajan]

can't be...can it?


Only 9,099 Of Last 10,500 Years Warmer Than 2010

Another graph of temperatures from the Greenland ice core for the past 10,000 years is shown in Figure 5. It shows essentially the same temperatures as Cuffy and Clow (1997) but with somewhat greater detail. What both of these temperature curves show is that virtually all of the past 10,000 years has been warmer than the present.

Figure 5. Temperatures over the past 10,000 years recorded in the GISP2 Greenland ice core

Only 9,099 Of Last 10,500 Years Warmer Than 2010 - By Brian Bolduc - Planet Gore - National Review Online

 

[syrenn]

It is the natural cycle of the earth. Hot, warm, cold, warm hot...... Why is this so hard to understand.

 

[Colin]

It is the natural cycle of the earth. Hot, warm, cold, warm hot...... Why is this so hard to understand.

Because governments don't want us to understand it. They don't want their new carbon tax cash cow compromised!

 

[Trajan]

2010 – where does it fit in the warmest year list? | Watts Up With That?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

This can only mean that the SUV is 10,000 years old!

 

[ScienceRocks]

Cooling-gate: Easterbrook defends the indefensible

Adding otherside data and you can make up your mind with more information.

 

[Trajan]

This can only mean that the SUV is 10,000 years old!

seeing is believing frank..

 

[CrusaderFrank]

We have to stop Global Warming before we're all buried under a sheet of ice!

 

[ScienceRocks]

the GISP2 temperature reconstruction only goes up to 1905. If you plot it out, it's pretty clear that this is the dataset used to produce the graph Easterbrook references, not the raw isotope data.

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/pa...gisp2/isotopes/gisp2_temp_accum_alley2000.txt

 

[Old Rocks]

temperature

As we get closer to the present the data gets more accurate and we can spot small fluctuations on top of larger trends - this is one reason it feels that things are happening faster. Though things have basically been warming up in the last 16 thousand years, there was a severe cold spell between 12.9 and 11.5 thousand years ago: the Younger Dryas event.

(I love that name! It comes from the tough little Arctic flower Dryas octopetala, whose plentiful pollen in certain ice samples gave evidence that this time period was chilly. Before the Younger Dryas there was a warm spell called the Allerød, and before that a cold period called the Older Dryas.)

Anyway, the Younger Dryas lasted about 1400 years. Temperatures dropped dramatically in Europe: about 7°C in only 20 years! In Greenland, it was 15° C colder during the Younger Dryas than today. In England, the average annual temperature was -5° C, so glaciers started forming. We can see evidence of this event from oxygen isotope records and many other things.

Why the sudden chill? One theory is that the melting of the ice sheet on North America lowered the salinity of North Atlantic waters. This in turn blocked a current called the "Atlantic thermohaline circulation", or the Conveyor Belt for short, which normally brings warm water up the coast of Europe. Proponents of this theory argue that this current is what makes London much warmer than, say, Winnipeg in Canada or Irkutsk in Russia. Turn it off and - wham! - you'll get glaciers forming in England.

So, ironically, global warming may have brought on a sudden deep freeze in Europe. Some scientists are worried that we could be in for a repeat of the Younger Dryas if we keep melting the Arctic ice sheets at the rate we're doing now. For more, try:

 

[Old Rocks]

the GISP2 temperature reconstruction only goes up to 1905. If you plot it out, it's pretty clear that this is the dataset used to produce the graph Easterbrook references, not the raw isotope data.

ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/pa...gisp2/isotopes/gisp2_temp_accum_alley2000.txt

Interesting. Dr. Alley does good work, I really would like to see the same temp set from an ice core from the Himalayan Glacial cap.

A23A

 

[uscitizen]

If our CO2 buildup is going to cause climate problems it is already too late to avert most of the consequences. So we might as well just make it worse right?

 

[boedicca]

can't be...can it?


Only 9,099 Of Last 10,500 Years Warmer Than 2010

Another graph of temperatures from the Greenland ice core for the past 10,000 years is shown in Figure 5. It shows essentially the same temperatures as Cuffy and Clow (1997) but with somewhat greater detail. What both of these temperature curves show is that virtually all of the past 10,000 years has been warmer than the present.

Figure 5. Temperatures over the past 10,000 years recorded in the GISP2 Greenland ice core

Only 9,099 Of Last 10,500 Years Warmer Than 2010 - By Brian Bolduc - Planet Gore - National Review Online

This is an excellent graph. The earth has been warming ever since the end of the Little Ice Age. That's a good thing.