Typical? So, people typically ask you to explain and expand on your statements and you decline, accusing them of dodging the issue. I'm not sure I've ever seen such a perfect case of projection.
"The most recent glacial period occurred between about 120,000 and 11,500 years ago. Since then, Earth has been in an interglacial period called the Holocene. Glacial periods are colder, dustier, and generally drier than interglacial periods.
These glacial–interglacial cycles are apparent in many marine and terrestrial paleoclimate records from around the world."
I do not because your statement is demonstrably false.
What do you believe we are discussing?
I have read a great deal of material re AGW in the last 20 years and I have not seen anyone claiming that microclimate changes in LA will affect global weather. I have certainly seen comments going in the other direction: that weather or climate changes in LA are
indicative of global change. Do you have any examples?
Is that how it works? So, are you suggesting the the LIA was NOT regional? Or are you suggesting that global warming - "the very thing we are discussing" - IS regional? In either case, I'd really like to see something besides your 'opinion' on the matter. If you have a point to make, I'd really like to see some scholarly backing for it.
I didn't say to ignore it. I just wanted to make certain that someone had told you they weren't global.
The MWP was only slighly regional. The LIA more so. The RWP was regional and started before that graph began. The DACP was was regional, complex, overlapped with the LALIA and there is disagreement about it's start and stop points. And then there is the point that while you might be seeing the tail end of the RWP, the DACP just doesn't seem to be visible in those data. Beyond that, you'd have to ask the authors. From my point of view, the critical portion of that graph, of course, is the warming after 1880. Showing that warming and cooling took place prior to human industrialization does not have the relevance that many deniers (yourself excluded) would like to give it.
We have had very, very few conversations prior to yesterday or the day before, so that's not very impressive. I have had many conversations with other posters about the LIA and the RWP and the MWP and their various levels of regionality, but none of them have ever produced any points of significance with regard to AGW. If you think you have or that you could, please elaborate.
USMB believes that you - as someone OTHER than the OP in this thread, aren't obligated to provide diddly squat. I, however, think that if you put up numbers, scientific ethics says you should provide a source. I did not say that you needed to show evidence that those periods existed; they are common terms in this forum. I asked, quite clearly, for support for the numbers you provided, particularly for regional phenomena.
[Smiles]
So did the adults.
You think a request for sources is childish? How does that explain USMB's requirement of them in OPs under precisely these circumstances? How does that explain their universal use in refereed science publications? Is everyone being childish except poster Mushroom?
No, you should not.
I have seen such discussions in the past but in every case I've witnessed, that simply centered around regionality.
Always handy to have a label.
Well, thank you. But, you know, you ought to do things like this often. So, let's have a look.
Well, the first thing that catches your eye is that Wikipedia's LIA article uses the EXACT same graphic that you called a "joke" and "complete coprolite". And the article states in the very first sentence that
"The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of regional cooling, particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region.[2]" with that footnote going to
- Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy (1971). Times of Feast, Times of Famine: a History of Climate Since the Year 1000. Barbara Bray. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-374-52122-6. OCLC 164590.
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That must be a little embarrassing.
This one begins
"The Roman Warm Period, or Roman Climatic Optimum, was a period of unusually-warm weather in Europe and the North Atlantic that ran from approximately 250 BC to AD 400.[1]"
with that footnote going to
- Cambell, Ian D; Campbell, Celina; Apps, Michael J; Rutter, Nathaniel W; Bush, Andrew BG (1998). "Late Holocene similar to 1500yr climatic periodicities and their implications". Geology. 26: 471–473. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0471:LHYCPA>2.3.CO;2.
more geologists I guess.
Okay, so what bearing do the MWP, the LIA, the RWP, the DACP and the LALIA have on the conclusion of very, very close to all the world's climate scientists that anthropogenic global warming has been taking place since the Industrial Revolution (a period also loosely known as The Anthropocene). I saw one post of yours in which you denied being a denier. But if that's the case, why so critical of so much science?