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The Little Ice Age
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THE LITTLE ICE AGE
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Geoscience Research Institute
Origins 10(2):51-65 (1983).
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Have climatic changes taken place over centuries? If so, what were the causes and effects?
INTRODUCTION
The changeability of weather is a phenomenon known to all who live on Earth. Daily fluctuations in temperature, moisture and wind represent the most rapid weather changes that we experience. Changes in weather patterns through the seasons, the annual cycles, as well as multi-annual cycles are generally predictable. Spring does, in fact, follow winter year after year. Climate is defined as the composite of all the components that determine weather in a particular area averaged over time (i.e., a number of years). A particular region can be defined by the dominant weather feature(s) which affect the environment to the greatest extent: polar, monsoon, desert, tropical, etc. While a climate is described in terms of certain weather features, the presence of anomalies such as an unusual rainstorm or high-velocity wind need not change one's opinion about the overall climate for a specific region. In other words, extremes in a particular weather factor can be included just as long as the measurable weather characteristics approximate some average value over long periods of time.
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As we examine this topic, it will be seen that evidence for a significant fundamental climatic change is substantial, but — and perhaps more interestingly — the specific reasons for this change are not understood. It is hoped that the reader will gain an appreciation for the very delicate balance that allows life on Earth to continue, and for the serious changes in this balance that could result from catastrophic events.
There are certain difficulties in attempting a historical study of climate because the most common instruments of today such as the thermometer, wind gauge, barometer and rain gauge are all of .
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2. Was the 2 0 t Cetury Climate Unusual?
Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas
Summary 1,Oooyear climate Study
unusual
This report examines the repeated claim tl at the climate of the 2 0 th century -was .,that the 20"'
compared with those of the last 1000 year . The claim takes several forms e.g
decade of
century has been warmer than any other c ntury, that the 1990s were the warmest
the millennium, or that 1998 was the warmest year of the millennium.
enough to allow a
These claims imply that the temperature a the past 1000 years is known well
comparison of the 2 0 th century with the prEvious centuries, decades and individual years. This is
to allow
not the case. A sufficiently complete set of' direct temperature measurementsthere are many
computation of global average temperature is only available since 1861 and
reasons to question the accuracy of the record.
isotopic
For earlier periods it is possible to use pro information, e.g., tree growth, the including
composition of corals and ice cores, to esl mate local climate information, sometimes
local temperature.
in temperature
However, the proxy data are far too incorrplete - both in spatial coverage and most widely
The
information - to allow a realistic estimatior of a global surface temperature.
the lastl1000years
quoted effort to reconstruct the temnperatu e of the Northern Hemisphere for and the assumption
depends heavily on a single set of tree gr wh data from the Western U.S.,
the Northern
that the differences in temperature betwe n te Westr US. and the rest of
Hemisphere for the last millennium were te same as they were in the 2 0th century. This is an
trends are not
unrealistic assumption, because it is well ocumented that such local climate
uniform over areas as large as a hemisphere.
the last 1000
While proxy data cannot be used to recorqstruct the global average climate of
years, they do provide a basis for comparing the climate of the 20"'hcentury to the climate of the
found that it
preceding 900 years within individual Io ~ions. A survey of the scientific literature any 50-year
than
was possible to identify a 50-year period inwhich temperatures were warmer results offer
period inthe 2 0th century in most of the locations of the climate proxies. These the range
strong evidence that the climate of the 20 " century was not unusual, but fell within
experienced during the past 1000 years.
The proxy data also offer strong support for the existence of:
about 800 to
the Medieval Warm Period, aperiod f warmer temperatures, which lasted from
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1300 G. E.
toas late as
* the Little Ice Age, aperiod of colder timperatures, which lasted from about1400
1900 G.E in some regions..
during
The recovery from the Little Ice Age may account for some of the warming experienced
the early 20t' century, especially early in the century.
suggests that
The existence of periods like the Mediev I Warm Period and the Little Ice Age inferred from the
local climate varies on century-long time scales, a result that cannot be easily
much shorter thermometry records.
the 2 0th century
The available scientific evidence does not support the claim that the climate of of the previous
in many locations around the globe was Unusual when compared to the climate
900 years.
3. Unilateral and Right
By James K. Glassman.
When the war in Iraq ends, a ren wed clamor for the United States to back
harsh restrictions on carbon-dioxide emissions will begin.
The reasons are obvious. Envirorpmentalists, politicians and editorialists in
the U.S. will complain that, if only the Bush Administration had been more
"multilateral" and had backed the~Kyoto Protocol on global warming, more
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Europeans would have joined ou military campaign against Saddam
Hussein.
Tony Blair, our strongest overseas ally, has bitterly criticized U.S.
opposition to Kyoto - partly to prove to home audiences that he is no
lapdog of George W. Bush. It's lik(ely that he'll also want to patch things up
with France and Germany by usinig some of his political capital with Bush
to push the White House to adopt measures to fight climate change.
Key international meetings in Cancun and Florence this fall will be the
battleground for the final assault by Greens and their allies to convince
Americans to join Kyoto, or something like it.
That's why a new study, funded ~n part by NASA and announced in a
Harvard University press releaSE on Monday, is so important. The study
concludes that, contrary to popular belief, "Many records reveal that the
20th century is likely not the warnest nor a uniquely extremne climatic
period of the last millennium" [ermphasis in the study].
The conclusion comes from "a riview of more than 200 climate studies led
by researchers at the Harvard-Sk ithsonian Center for Astrophysics." The
researchers were Willie Soon a d Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-
Smithsonian Center; Craig ldso and Sherwood ldso of the Center for the
Study of Carbon Dioxide and GI bal Change at Tempe, Ariz.; and David R.
Legates of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Delaware.
Baliunas is also deputy director ofthe Mt. Wilson Observatory in California
and co-host of TechCentralStati n, to which Soon is a regular contributor.
In the press release distributed by Harvard, Soon is quoted as saying:
"Many true research advances 'h reconstructing ancient climates have
occurred over the past two dec ds, so we felt it was time to pull together a
large sample of recent studies fm the last five to ten years and look for
4. patterns of variability and change.
"In fact, clear patterns did emerge showing that regions worldwide
experienced the highs of the Medieval warm Period and lows of the Little
Ice Age, and that 20th century telhiperatures are generally cooler than
during the medieval warmth."
These findings are vital to the debate over the Kyoto agreement since the
premise for cutting back on greerkhouse-gas emissions is that humans
played a significant role in heatinL) up the Earth during the 20th Century.
But Soon and his colleagues confirmed that a warm epoch appeared in
various parts of the world from about 900 to 1000 A.D. through about 1200
to 1300 A.D., during which temp( ratures were greater than those of the
20th Century.
Needless to say, there were no SUVs 1,000 years ago.
Other warm periods are also idenitified in the study. For example, the
researchers ask, "Was the warmtnh of the 1980s in western Europe
exceptional or unusual?" Not at all.
They cite the respected climate scholar H. H. Lamb, who wrote that "even
the great warmth of the years 109891991, hailed in some quarters as proof
of the reality of the predicted glo~ial warming due to the enhancement of
the greenhouse effect by increasing carbon dioxide and other
effluents ... may have a surprising analogy in the past to the remarkable
warmth - well attested in Europe' - of the year 1540, shortly before the
sharpest onset of the so-called Lbittle Ice Age." In the first week of January
1541, Lamb wrote that "young pe3ople were still bathing inthe Rhine on the
Swiss-German border.''
The point here is that warm periL ds don't necessarily precede warmer
periods. They may precede colcoer ones. We just don't know enough about
climate to make predictions, and it would be folly to spend between $150
billion and $400 billion a year - thie estimates for Kyoto-style mitigation - on
the flimsy evidence of warming that currently exists.
The study also casts doubt on the sort of thin anecdotal evidence often
cited by the media to show that kthe planet is heating up in unusual fashion.
For example, the New York Timjes is obsessed with retreating glaciers, but
they are not a new phenomenoln.
"Broadly," write the scholars, "!glaciers retreated all over the world during
5. the Medieval Warm Period, with a n 'table but minor re-advance between 1050 and
1150.... The world's small glaciers and tropical glaciers have simultaneously
retreated since the 19th century, but some glaciers have advanced." Soon
and his colleagues cite the work Af D. J. A. Evans, who "commented that
significant warming phases, especIially those accompanied by relatively
warm winters and cool summers, during intergiacials [like the current
period] may lead to the onset of another global glaciation."
So, melting glaciers are not uniqLqe to the industrial era, and they could
signal a period of growing, not ret reating, glaciers to come.
The evidence of earlier warming is not new. But, as Baliunas says, "For a
long time, researchers have possessed anecdotal evidence supporting the
existence of these climate extreni es. For example, the Vikings established
colonies in Greenland at the beginning of the second millennium that died
out several hundred years later w'hen the climate turned colder. And in
England, vineyards had flourished during the medieval warmth. Now, we
have an accumulation of objective data to back up these cultural
indicators."
The data were from ice cores, tree-ring samples and other methods. And
the results are clear: Despite out4 modern hubris, we aren't the only humans
to experience a warmer earth. It makes sense, then, to view with
skepticism the claims that we havje caused major changes in climate.
Observers such as Bjorn Lombo'g, the Danish statistician and author of
The Skeptical Environmentalist, ptart their critique by accepting the notion
that the earth is warming and that humans play a key role. Lomborg argues
that trying to fix the problem with huge expenditures or cutbacks that will
reduce economic growth is far too costly for the meager benefits that will
ensue from Kyoto's strictures.
Yes, but now Soon anid the other researchers are showing the shakiness of
Kyoto's foundation. The strong 4r plication of their work is that warming is
probably natural and cyclical. It happens all the time, and there is not much
we can do about it. Nor can we predict its course with much accuracy.
What's needed now - and we crtainly have the time - is more research.
Risking havoc with the world ecnornoy, especially in this fragile period,
would be foolish and dlangerous. Kyoto has been moved to the back
burner, mainly by the U.S. and developing countries. That's where it
belongs.
6. But it might not stay there. Policymkes need to pay attention to the facts -
especially after the war ends and environmental extremists start applying
the real heat.