Climate Change Deniers
One of our mantras at The Pipeline is "Climate Changes. Always Has, Always Will." This fact, which we've discussed in various contexts, is important to remember, as is Christopher Horner's addendum -- somehow, "saying 'climate changes' makes one a 'climate change denier.' Go figure."
For more of this genre of "climate change denial," check out the Ango-Irish pop historian and political commentator Ed West discussing Great Britain's recent heatwave with an eye towards history. He begins his post with a discussion of climatologist Hubert Lamb, who first noticed that descriptions of European agriculture from centuries past made little sense in the context of the modern climate.Hubert Lamb concluded that Europe must have been considerably warmer during the Middle Ages, and in 1965 produced his great study outlining the theory of the Medieval Warm Period (1000-1300).- Since then, Lamb's thesis has been reinforced by analysis of pollen in peat bogs and radioactive isotope Carbon-14 found in tree rings.
Global warming has tended towards human thriving, whereas cooling has tended to be an occasion for concern
- The Great Famine killed anywhere between 5-12% of the European population, although some areas, such as Flanders, suffered far worse death rates. The facts are brutal, but the events which precipitated them are natural. This occurred before the industrial revolution, and in a world without fracking or gas-and-diesel driven automobiles.
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