Remarkable new scientific evidence has been published that suggests abrupt rises in temperature have been a feature of global climate change going back to the iceless Jurassic period over 150 million years ago. These warming events, in which the temperature rose many degrees centigrade within decades or less, were thought to be a feature of the last ice age up to 100,000 years ago and confined to Greenland and the North Atlantic. This dramatic new evidence suggests they were a feature across the globe going back millions of years.
The findings will give fresh insight into the highly politicised debate around climate science and Net Zero. It is constantly argued that the recent small rise in global temperature, which started over 200 years ago, is unprecedented, and is caused by humans burning fossil fuel. Far from being unprecedented, it seems similar changes in temperature over comparable, and often shorter, time periods were ubiquitous across paleoclimatic history stretching back to the Jurassic era.
A group of French scientists led by Slah Boulila from the Sorbonne carried out extensive research into what are known as Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) events. These events, named after two paleoclimatologists, track 1,500 year temperature cycles when large rises suddenly occurred followed by a reversion to ice age conditions. The scientists noted warming up to 15°C within a few decades, “pointing to abrupt and severe changes in Earth’s past climate”. Scientists and green activists seeking to downplay the significance of large changes in the paleoclimatic record have suggested that oscillations of northern hemisphere ice sheets and surrounding waters played a part.
But the French scientists now say that paleoclimatic studies have shown that the 1,500-year climate cycle is no longer restricted to the North Atlantic Ocean of the last glacial period. “The 1,500-year cycle is documented in both hemispheres, in other oceans and in continents, such as in lake and river deposits, in pollen fossils, in stalagmite proxy records, and in loess-paleosol deposits,” they add. In conclusion, the scientists note that the analysed paleoclimate records of the late Jurassic “supports the global nature of DO-like event, and in particular that their potential primary cause is independent of ice sheet dynamics”.
Of course, the inconvenient fact that the planet has seen countless significant temperature rises in the past is not unknown. Back in 1999, before global climate hysteria got into its full stride, geographer Mark Maslin from Imperial College co-wrote a paper on “sudden climate transitions” in which he stated: “All the evidence indicates that most long-term climate change occurs in sudden jumps rather than incremental change.” He went on to add that some, and possibly most, large climate changes involving movements of several degrees occurred at most on a timescale of a few centuries, sometimes decades, “and perhaps even a few years”.
These days Maslin is Professor of Earth Systems Science at the politically-named UCL Anthropocene, and tweeting that “Earth is already becoming unliveable”. A frequent guest on BBC programmes, Maslin has explained that the Anthropocene began with European colonisation and mass slavery. The origins of racism and climate emergency “share common causes”. Climate change politics helps build “a new political (and socio economic) system”. In 2018, he was one of a number of eco-activists who signed a letter to the Guardian saying they would no longer “lend their credibility” by debating climate change scepticism.
It would seem that the record of large – often startlingly large – rises in past temperature needs to be downplayed if the command-and-control Net Zero project is to be promoted. Removing fossil fuel from modern lifestyles within less than 30 years demands enormous economic and societal sacrifices, particularly from poorer members of society and across the developing world. It can only be done if enough people and populations believe there is an existential threat to the planet from recent warming and model-projected future warming.
Meanwhile, science continues to produce evidence of major temperature changes in the past. Two recent studies suggesting much higher temperatures are noted by the No Tricks Zone climate science site. A new study is said to have shown that it was warm enough 8,000 to 5,000 years ago for the plant Ceratopteris to have grown at 40°N in northern China. These days, the plant’s limit is 34°N, suggesting that winter temperatures in the past needed to be 7.7°C higher than today. Another warmth threshold species study argues that the Arctic Svalbard needed to have been 6°C warmer than today during the early Holocene. This is because 9,000 years ago, molluscs survived 1,000km north of where they are currently found.
Further details on the work undertaken by the Boulila team, including its scientific methodology, can be accessed here. More details about the two papers can be found on the No Tricks Zone. And further reporting on past global temperature changes by the Daily Sceptic can be found here.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Not a peep from the MSM.
If anyone by now, doesn’t recognise there is an organised campaign to hoodwink the public they need their head examined.
Beat me to it, wall to wall coverage from the BBC.
There has not been a single demonstration against Covid restrictions or vaccine mandates world wide, amazing really.
BBC took the mick last year when instead of covering the freedom protests in London on a sat in summer time, they chose to cover an LGBT protest in I think hungry.
I hope they don’t park up which was the Canadians big mistake – to keep circling is the way to go.
Nothing the cops can do about it – it isn’t an offence to drive on the road if you have a licence and are insured.
Maybe GB News will cover it and give it a bit of traction.
I just thought I’d post this (and see if I can).
it would be rather interesting to see a Canada style trucker protest in the states and also the states potential response, just imagine if bank accounts are frozen of US citizens in a country with multiple weapons.
Colonials love to talk a good game about how having guns protects them from tyranny, but I see precious little evidence of it. How many of them have gone down shooting?
You can point at States with Constitutional carry laws and see that they’re correlated with low or brief levels of Coofs despotism, but that’s all it is: correlation. I don’t buy for a second that the oligarchs or their creatures are in the least bothered about the number of guns that the populace has, given that they don’t seem minded to use them for their explicitly intended purpose.
regarding US weapons, my view is the people in the US have the guns, but the state has the minds.
Be interesting to see though a la truedeau style response in a country with a different culture, food for thought.
What is Coofs despotism?
Canada has a higher per-capita gun ownership.
That may well be true, but the population is much smaller and spread over wider areas. So probably a lot easier for a brutal state machine to suppress should it come to that.
Russia!
BURMA!
(I panicked)
Chipangali! (Also has orphans!)
Our great Dr. Paul Alexander and Dr. Pierre Kory are there.
Follow him on palexander.substack.com
Good on them, although as always the merits of inconveniencing regular people and not the oligarchs’ underlings seem unclear.
My real concern is how many Confederate flags, across-State-lines scaryguns, and copies of Mein Kampf the FBI will plant and find among them before they are all labelled as domestic terrorists.
Just to link this…are the police in Russia citing pandemic rules when dispersing antiwar demonstrations? Word is that a few thousand antiwar demonstrators were arrested in Russia today. If the antiwar movement could link up with the anti Covid restrictions movement, that’d be great.
Pardon me if I remain completely underwhelmed. It took the bloody Canadians to stir up the ‘Government can’t mess with our civil liberties because Constitution’ Americans. In London last year we were pulling in hundreds of thousands weekly, ditto many parts of Europe, and there was barely a peep from the Americans.
It is wonderfully ironic that it was the Canadians, so famous for being ‘law-abiding’ and for not rocking the boat, who were the staunchest in taking the fight to the tyrants. But overall, we all did too little, too late. And for the Americans to bowl up now as if they are ‘fighting for freedom’ is an absolute joke and an insult.
The Jan6th ‘shock and awe’ crackdown had the intended effect on political disent. Most patriots concluded it was best to keep their head down and hope the next election won’t be stolen under the pretext of universal covid postal voting.
Colour me suspicious about this trucker protest – coming as it does just before the midterms when covid restrictions and mandates are slowly being rolled back. Seems ideal timing for another FBI-staged false-flag with armed huwite supremacists ‘threatening our democracy’ or some such staged nonsense.
Whuwhhhwhhite
Urgent – respond to the ‘consultation’ on the Human Rights Act
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/human-rights-act-reform-a-modern-bill-of-rights/human-rights-act-reform-a-modern-bill-of-rights-consultation
Deadline 8th. March, i.e. Tuesday.
Tell them you don’t want individual rights watered down as they propose. If they get away with this, it makes it easier to mandate vaccines … as far as I know, never done in England except for childhood smallpox in the 19th.C, a vac. which was abandoned later that century.
There are also lots of other human rights questions they want answered, if you have time.
https://senatormastriano.com/2022/03/01/expert-panel-discussion-on-covid-19-and-medical-freedom/
Absolutely explosive panel discussion. Steve Kirsch accuses the US government of murdering Americans and covering it up.
McCullough and Renz also speak. Very outspoken. Wow.
On Friday, March 4th, a group of Pennsylvania legislators from both state chambers as well as a group of panelists joined a meeting to discuss COVID-19, medical freedom, and the implications about what many lament is a looming federalization of medicine. Included among those was cardiologist-researcher Dr. Peter McCullough who made the case for the four pillars of COVID-19 care.
Senator Doug Mastriano led the event. This Republican served as host of this event held at the Capitol building in Harrisburg, inviting what many in the medical establishment consider controversial figures including the internationally known Dr. Peter McCullough, MD, MPH but also acupuncturist Brian Ardis as well as multi-millionaire tech entrepreneur and COVID-19 vaccine- skeptic Steve Kirsch and attorney Thomas Renz.
https://trialsitenews.com/dr-peter-mccullough-shares-the-four-pillars-of-covid-19-care-to-pennsylvania-lawmakers/
Stunning speech by Steve Kirsch
Would love to get some Ivermectin just in case – but not sure about ordering from a no-name, no-address Indian pharmacy. Might just be selling sugar pills. Also I thought it was supposed to cost 3p/pill but they seem to want $45 for 12. Think I’ll pass and take my chances with the old immune system.
I can’t think of anything more boring about reading a book about Anthony Fauci. And who knows what’s in these tablets you are trying so desperately to flog – road dust and elephant dung swept up off the streets of Delhi and pressed into tablet form?
Anyone who orders ‘Ivermectin’ from India is just prolonging the Covid scam.
The book is a real eye opener – I can assure you it NOT boring!!!
Extremely well written and reasearched.
I won’t pass comment on your disparagement of Indian ivermectin from your tone I take it you have never been o India?
Does West Bromwich count?