Climate change sceptics lose vital argument - 29 November 2006

As the little ice age was a regional effect, it would not show up on a global temperature record like the hockey stick graph Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by William Hughes-Games - Nov 10, 2009 - 10:09 AM PST
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Nov 10, 2009 - 1:37 PM PST

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William Hughes-Games
by William Hughes-Games - Nov. 10, 2009

Adding another piece to the climate change puzzle

This article weakens the sun spot theory of climate change. The observed very low sun spot activity is oft quoted as the reason for the little ice age. For us the real sigificance is that if the Arctic becomes ice free, Greenland ice could start to melt rapidly, shutting down the gulf stream and causing a freeze. This would start up the Gulf stream and melting would resume. This flick-flacking of the climate between the present state and the new state would be far more ... More »

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by Norman Rogers - Nov. 11, 2009

Total and complete confusion regarding the hockey stick. 10% reduction in the gulf stream would have little effect on Europe. The problem with the hockey stick is not only that it doesn't show the little ice age but it also ignores the medivial optimum or warm spell around 1100. The IPCC is a fertile source of global warming propaganda. The hockey stick is not the only propaganda.

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