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15. Some look back might help

Reply to CommonSenseDemocrat (Original post)

Sat Jan 23, 2016, 08:46 PM

Jan 2016

The last time we had a global warming scenario was during the Viking Age. While they did not have thermometers then, there is a lot of literature and geological evidence of what happened then. Some areas benefited greatly as increased agricultural production led to the rise of the Vikings. Other societies such as the American southwest were devastated by the climatic changes and were crushed by drought. The Little Ice Age which followed (and which we are just climbing out of) destroyed Viking power and had a very negative effect on all of Europe.

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Is global warming a hoax now that the mid-Atlantic got slammed with a major blizzard? [View all] CommonSenseDemocrat Jan 2016 OP

Yes, this proves that everything we thought we understood cheapdate Jan 2016 #1

Post removed Post removed Jan 2016 #6

The radiative equilibrium temperature of the earth cheapdate Jan 2016 #10

I thought it was funny CommonSenseDemocrat Jan 2016 #14

It's about the only thing that's worthwhile, sometimes. cheapdate Jan 2016 #17

Wow, tough crowd CommonSenseDemocrat Jan 2016 #2

yeah it's just not LiberalElite Jan 2016 #4

Sorry for the east coast folks, but here in detroit angstlessk Jan 2016 #3

Oh it'll get to be above freezing in a couple of days - LiberalElite Jan 2016 #5

The first year we moved here 1997? angstlessk Jan 2016 #7

Where are you? nt LiberalElite Jan 2016 #8

Detroit angstlessk Jan 2016 #9

For all the big snow storms we've had here - LiberalElite Jan 2016 #13

That's not how this works FloriDem Jan 2016 #11

No, that was last year's truth. This year, now that we've learned that global petronius Jan 2016 #12

Some look back might help 1939 Jan 2016 #15

Of course it's a hoax, and I don't need the East Coast storm to think so DavidDvorkin Jan 2016 #16

Not funny at all nadinbrzezinski Jan 2016 #18

global climate change is the better phrase, not global warming steve2470 Jan 2016 #19

No. The climate change models all predicted bad winter storms on the east coast. n/t pnwmom Jan 2016 #20