After examining the paucity of data that went into the NOAA and NASA claim of the warmest year on record, [climate scientist] Tim Ball examines ice core data from Greenland (GRIP). He observes that the record is at least 10,000 years old with the Climatic Optimum about 2.5°C warmer than present, about 4,000 to 7,000 years ago. From this, he concludes that 2014 is one of the coldest years in the 10,000 year record, and groups it with about 3% of the years over the past 10,000 that were as cold. The analysis brings out an important point. How many of the politicians and Senators who are so anxious to stop global warming/climate change by controlling CO2 emissions have any idea of the history of climate of their State? Senator Sanders from Vermont, the Green Mountain State, seems to be blissfully unaware that for much of the past 2.5 million years the state was a barren, frozen wasteland, occasionally changed by brief warm periods. As late as 20,000 years ago, it was covered by thousands of feet of ice. Senator Whitehouse appears to be similarly ignorant of climate history. Rhode Island was covered with ice and its famed rugged coast line was quite flat, with the continental shelf stretching many miles beyond the current shore-line. Sea levels were about 400 feet lower than today and teeth of mastodons and mammoths have been recovered by fishermen from at least 40 sites on the continental shelf as deep as 120 meters. ~ summarized by Ken Haapala, President of SEPP. digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1245&context=usgsstaffpub
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