According to little Mikey, the climate suddenly went nuts in the year 1910.
It isn’t clear what might have caused Mr. Climate to have a nervous breakdown then, because CO2 was hardly rising around that time.
So I spent the last 30 seconds researching the history of that year, and discovered that 1910 was the summer when the first night game was played at White Sox Park. The lights apparently made Gaia feel very romantic, and the rest is history.
I wonder if idiots like Mann know that the reason tree rings are growing faster lately is because of the CO2, not because of heat. Using tree rings as a proxy of global temperatures is the stupidest thing I know of. And I know of a lot of stupid things.
I think that tree ring width is more based on the length of the growing season than CO2 levels. Growing season length gives a decent idea if it was warmer or colder.
Plants don’t grow when it’s dry. That’s why you seldom cut your lawn in winter. There won’t be much growth in a dry growing season, so precipitation is probably more important than some variation of a tiny fraction of 1C.
Tree rings are influenced by CO2 and H2O and fertilizer and the temperature WINDOW. If it is too hot they quit growing if it is too cold they quit growing. However the other factors CONFOUND measurements of growth rings.
It is interesting to note this is the second summer of the 20 plus years I have owned my farm that the white clover has not died back by June. Last year we had no “drought” but this year we did with some of the grasses drying out and still the white clover is blooming instead of burnt to a crispy brown. It is also the second year my bucks (male billy goats) have come into smelly rut in June. Buck goats are like buck deer and rut in August and September not June and July. This last year I had kids in early November and then again in July. High temps make them sterile.
To get November kids my Bucks and Does were coming into season in early June the longest days of the year in MID North Carolina…..
Reference was:
A l a b a m a A & M a n d A u b u r n U n i v e r s i t i e s
Reproductive Management of Sheep and Goats
http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-1316/ANR-1316.pdf
Nonsense. Plant growth explodes when you raise CO2. Mikey Pildown Mann’s whole hockey puck is due to tree growth rate due to CO2 but he’s such a moron he doesn’t know his arse
Sarcasm on:
Yea, the reason indoor dope growers pipe CO2 into their growing rooms is to create a longer growing season.
:Sarcasm off.
There are more important drivers of tree ring growth other than temperature. A longer growing season doesn’t automatically make wider tree rings, only an overall weather pattern that is more beneficial to the growth of the tree than the previous year’s pattern can accomplish that. Rain water or the distribution of precipitation through out the growing season is the most important factor affecting tree ring growth. I have never seen the length of the growing season accurately determined by tree ring growth, only the presence or absence of a drought has much effect.
Temperature, precipitation and CO2 all affect growth, so it boggles the mind as to how the signal from warmer temperatures can be distilled from the tree ring data.
Hey Steve! Yes, and affected by whether a bear defecated next to the tree, and whether the tree next to it died and let in more sunshine, and whether a stream bank collapsed and slightly changed the near surface flow of drainage water, and a snowdrift nearby melted earlier in the spring than usual, and whether a rock slide uphill damaged one side of the tree bark, — and — and —
As you say, it boggles the mind. And yet, “the science is settled!”
Here’s today’s good news – Coral Atolls are safe
http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/8/2/coral-atolls-are-safe.html
If atolls disappeared due to sea level rise, they would have disappeared 20 thousand years so, because seas have been steadily rising since then.
Actually that is not quite true. The Holocene Sea Level Highstand was thousands of years ago. The Holocene sealevel Highstand was ~ 1.5 meter above todays sea-level 6,000 years ago in geologically stable South Vietnam. Sea level has been DECREASING in fits and starts ever since then.
Another paper:
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/ericg/kap_paper.pdf
This ties in with glacier growth.
Another 2012 study using lake sediments has found that Norway is experiencing the Greatest Glacial activity (growth) during the holocene in the past 1,000 years!
An explanation of this study can be seen at http://theinconvenientskeptic.com/2012/04/norway-experiencing-greatest-glacial-activity-in-the-past-1000-year/
MORE:
Abstract
“…..We therefore conclude that for a priod in the Early Holocene, probably for a millenium or more, the Arctic Ocean was free of sea ice at least for shorter periods in the summer……”
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007AGUFMPP11A0203F
Abstract
“…..Arctic sea ice cover was strongly reduced during most of the early Holocene and there appear to have been periods of ice free summers in the central Arctic Ocean……”
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379110003185
Everything the Climastrologists say seems to be an out right lie doesn’t it?
What’s more interesting is that half the proxy temperature ruse is prior to 1950, which according to the IPCC, CO2 couldn’t have had a measurable effect on temperatures. So his graph actually strongly rules out CO2, if looked at logically.
Except the graph is totally bogus due to ‘cooling’ the past via computer ‘adjustments’. Using it to learn something is insane and futile.