Update - Envrio Article Comment

Update - Enviro Article Comment

Back on April 6, I posted the following article:

Telegraph | News | Middle Ages were warmer than today, say scientists

"Claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research which shows that the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages."

A comment was left by Tlaloc33:

Dr Simon Brown, the climate extremes research manager at the Meteorological Office at Bracknell, said that the present consensus among scientists on the IPCC was that the Medieval Warm Period could not be used to judge the significance of existing warming.

Dr Brown said: "The conclusion that 20th century warming is not unusual relies on the assertion that the Medieval Warm Period was a global phenomenon. This is not the conclusion of IPCC."

He added that there were also doubts about the reliability of temperature proxies such as tree rings: "They are not able to capture the recent warming of the last 50 years," he said.

and history shows that it was a wonderful period of plenty for everyone."

... except for the serfs, the inquisition, the bubonic plague, and the lack of indoor plumbing and McDonalds...

This information came from an article, a reprinting of which can be found here. First off, I would like to quote the paragraph immediately preceding the part referenced by the commentator: "The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the official voice of global warming research, has conceded the possibility that today's "record-breaking" temperatures may be at least partly caused by the Earth recovering from a relatively cold period in recent history. While the evidence for entirely natural changes in the Earth's temperature continues to grow, its causes still remain mysterious."

Note a couple of things here:

1. The IPCC is the "official voice of global warming research." Hmmmmm . . . maybe we should treat this research and commentary with the same care that we treat cancer research coming from a tobacco company. When the "official" global warming guys say that global warming exists, it's just shocking and amazing, right?
2. They conceded the possibility that something other than SUVs has caused the current "warming." Actually, this should have gotten major play as it is huge news that, for the first time that I can find, the global warming folks have actually acknowledged that there could be reasons for the phenomenon other than man's activities. (Assuming, of course that one accepts that there is a warming in the first place. Hey New York, how was that winter you guys had this year?)
3. Check out these sites for more information:
   • http://www.vision.net.au/~daly/history.htm
   • http://www.globalwarming.org/index.htm
   • http://www.junkscience.com/foxnews/fn111700.htm
   • http://www.nationalcenter.org/TP38.html
   • http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/ten_facts_about_global_warming.htm
   • http://envirotruth.org/GlobalWarming.cfm