In 1939, Norway’s glaciers were nearing catastrophic collapse. By 1952 they had lost half of their mass, and by 1976 they were all growing.
17 Dec 1939, Page 15 – Harrisburg Sunday Courier
18 Feb 1952 – POLAR ICE THAW INCREASING
Retreat of the Abrekke glacier in Norway before 1946.
The Present Climatic Fluctuation on JSTOR
May 23, 1976, page 56 – The Argus at Newspapers.com
This is consistent with Briffa’s reconstruction, but not with the Hockey Stick
Alleged CRU Emails – Searchable
After all these years, they’ve figured out that sometimes it’s warmer, and sometimes it’s colder than normal.
Guess which part of Keith Briffa’s temperature reconstruction was the subject of “here the decline”?
Mickey, the Rodent, says that 1900 was as cold as the middle of the Little Ice Age. How did all of those immigrant farmers successfully turn The Great American Desert into the bread basket of the world, when their ancestors starved under the same conditions?
That Briffa chart is a bit nutty. It shows warming during the coldest part of the Maunder Minimum 1670-1700, the cold 1640’s doesn’t exist, the 1610’s had a lot of hot weather, and 1540 should be up there with 1936, or warmer.
http://www.breadandbutterscience.com/Weather.pdf
My understanding is that tree rings are not the best proxy for temperature, as they are influenced more by rainfall.
Tree rings are a dubious source or anything more than the life of the tree in question. I’m saying something that everyone knows but: In my garden, I planted early spring along the south facing wall of my house. All the same seeds. In three weeks time, those which get sunlight most of the day are about 6 inches tall. Those that are blocked from the sun most of the day, are still the seedlings they were when they emerged, and they are dying.
My grandfather had trees that grew by the side of his granary. They were never watered except by rain. They were about 3 inches in diameter when I as six and they were about 3 inches in diameter when I was 46. The same type of trees down on the creek were 18 inches to 24 inches in diameter over the same period of time. Tree rings reflect the growth of one tree and are dependent upon all of the factors that contribute to plant growth: soil, water, and light.