paleoclimatology, Tag

Guest shoot-down by David Middleton Preface In my previous two posts on uniformitarian impact craters, we examined the pitfalls of drawing cartoons on Google Earth images without ever looking at the geology and how the Carolina...

Tiny fossils unlock clues to Earth’s climate half a billion years ago. Sea temperatures of 25C helped fuel an explosion of life on Earth about 500 million years ago on Earth, according to UK scientists. Scientists from...

In ancient rocks, scientists see a climate cycle working across deep time. A repeating shift in Earth’s orbit spans hundreds of millions of years From THE EARTH INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Scientists drilling deep...

Guest post by David Middleton 04 APRIL 2018 Mississippi River flooding worse now than any time in past 500 years Efforts to control the river’s flow with levees and other structures have increased the risk of dangerous...

From the UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI and the “after the Roman Warm Period” department Unusual climate during Roman times plunged Eurasia into hunger and disease A recent study published in an esteemed academic journal...

From Smithsonian Magazine EVENT: “Paleoclimate: Digging into the Past to Chart our Future” streaming live tonight on our Facebook page. The discussion begins at 6:45 PM EST. (not live now, but will be at 6:45PM...

Guest Post By Renee Hannon Introduction In the mid-1900’s many scientists were suggesting the Earth was cooling. Now scientists are forecasting global warming. Indeed, instrumental data shows global temperatures warmed...

From the “we have to get rid of the Medieval Warming Period” department. Even though this paper was published in late 2017, it was recently highlighted in EoS, as shown below. Michael Mann, and others, in their...

People send me stuff. Today in my inbox, WUWT regular Michael Palmer sends this note: My wife Shenhui Lang found and translated an interesting article from 1973 that attempts the reconstruction of a climate record for China through...

From the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS and the “humans have survived far worse climates” department. New research suggests toward end of Ice Age, human beings witnessed fires larger than dinosaur killers LAWRENCE —...

Guest post by David Middleton This appears to be a fairly high resolution regional Holocene climate reconstruction of North America and Europe… Reconciling divergent trends and millennial variations in Holocene temperatures...

From the FLORIDA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY and the “if we make a correction factor, we’ve got funding” department. New Eocene fossil data suggest climate models may underestimate future polar warming GAINESVILLE,...

Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball At a recent public presentation titled “Whither the Weather” the most frequently asked question popped up once gain. “How do they know the temperatures from thousands of years ago, as in...

From the UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA and the learn Liebigs Law before you make unsupportable claims department, comes this laughable paper that was conceived by the author, Valerie Trouet, at her parents house while reading the...

This is interesting, and revealing. Using a new method of measuring krypton and xenon ratios in Antarctic ice core, an estimated temperature rise of just 0.1°C over the last 50 years was determined. This is well below many...