Has Andy Revkin Become A Bona-Fide Skeptic?

“STABLE CLIMATE OF PAST 12,000 YEARS?” HARDLY

A @DailyBeast story By Sharon Begley, besides claiming a link between this epic tornado season and global warming, also includes this unsupported line: “From these and other extreme-weather events, one lesson is sinking in with terrifying certainty. The stable climate of the last 12,000 years is gone.”
Separate from the tornado non-issue, anyone positing that we’re entering a new period of uniquely freaky climate conditions after an equable Holocene Epoch hasn’t looked at any lake beds. A couple examples:

– Sub-Saharan Africa’s multi-millennium pattern of mega-super-uber-droughts beyond anything experienced in recent centuries.

– The northeastern United States’ lake-bed record of unbelievably astounding super-deluges, which make the epic flooding events of recent history look mild by comparison. In other words, the “flood of record” for Vermont, in November 1927 (amazing video), appears to be 10 times less powerful than truly epic gullywashers occurring with some regularity in recent millenniums.

The last 200 years have been pretty comfy, but the last few thousand – let alone 12,000 – hardly!

The overstatements are unfortunate because the story makes some important points about the lack of focus on building resilience to climate extremes — a no-brainer already and particularly important as building greenhouse gases jog the system (and as human numbers crest).

Global warming will surely tip the odds toward some unpleasant surprises, but recent human history has barely tasted what nature can serve up.

http://revkin.tumblr.com/post/5986838354/stable-climate-of-past-12-000-years-hardly

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9 Responses to Has Andy Revkin Become A Bona-Fide Skeptic?

  1. Jimbo says:

    “From these and other extreme-weather events, one lesson is sinking in with terrifying certainty. The stable climate of the last 12,000 years is gone.”

    This is an outright lie. A feeble attempt to deceive. One example is that on many occasions I have provided peer reviewed evidence of an ice-free central Arctic ocean within the last 11,000 years. Is that a sign of a stable climate?
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.08.016

    Tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts and floods must have gone off the charts during the Minoan Warm Period and the Roman Warm Period. 😉

  2. Jimbo says:

    “Asian Monsoon Failure and Megadrought During the Last Millennium
    http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5977/486

    A nice stable climate during the past 12,000 years my arse!

  3. Jimbo says:

    “Cyclic fluctuations with periods of several hundred years were abrupt and persistent throughout the Holocene and are most clearly recorded within the two drier pulses. ”
    http://www.sciencemag.org/content/226/4679/1191.short

  4. Jimbo says:

    “The abrupt termination of the Younger Dryas climate event”
    “PREVIOUS studies on two deep Greenland ice cores have shown that a long series of climate oscillations characterized the late Weichselian glaciation in the North Atlantic region1, and that the last glacial cold period, the Younger Dryas, ended abruptly 10,700 years ago2″
    http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v339/n6225/abs/339532a0.html

  5. omnologos says:

    Last time I checked, Younger Dryas was used to DEMONSTRATE how easy it is for the climate to reach a tipping point…

  6. Old Goat says:

    This is the age of stupid…

  7. Mike Davis says:

    Andy still believes in global warming and thinks it should be presented better. The luke warmers are in the majority and are the problem.

    • Mike Davis says:

      He just can not connect natural weather variations with current conditions. He is a believer in the “Magic Bullet Theory”.

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