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0BZN0

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:09 am

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The Ideal Climate

Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus Geology, Western Washington
University, author of 8 books, 150 journal publications with focus on
geomorphology; glacial geology; Pleistocene geochronology; environmental
and engineering geology.

CBS-TV, 60 Minutes, Burlington, Washington

March 30, 2008

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/DonEasterbrookInterviewTranscript.pdf

KLC: For the record, Don, if you gave a gift to the world and controlled
the thermostat, where would you place us with regard to climate history?

DJE: If I had to pick a climate that was good for the whole world, the
perfect climate would be around the Medieval Warm Period.

KLC: Which is similar to where we are now.

DJE: We're slightly below it. It depends on who you believe. When the
Mann hockey stick curve was all the rage, they said the MWP didn't
happen. But we know it did happen. During this time, civilizations
flourished in Europe because of the long growing season and other
things. There is good reason to believe if you're in that range, the
growing season is longer, you can grow more food, you can grow more food
in Northern latitudes, and you'll support a more robust civilization.
People will have more free time because they're not starving to death,
they can do more things, like art-

KLC: And study the climate-

DJE: Right, like study the climate, that sort of thing. If I had to pick
a climate that would be a nice thing for the whole world, I'd say
somewhere close to the MWP.

KLC: A little bit warmer than now.

DJE: Yes, a little bit warmer than now, but not much. There's an
interesting parallel. If you look at the temperature curves, we've been
coming out of the LIA for about 400 or 500 years at a rate of a degree a
century. Will we do this forever? A degree a century? We have the
thirty-year wiggles in there, but when do we top out and start cooling
again? During the early part of the Holocene, it was warmer than now. In
fact, during the Climactic Optimum; it was warmer than it is now. If we
are on an overall rising temperature curve coming out of the LIA, when
we get to the temperature of the MWP, will we get another LIA, something
really big or something in-between, like the 1880-1910 cooling? The
answer is, we don't know, we'll have to wait and see. Until we have a
better understanding of what causes climactic fluctuations, solar or not
solar, and if it is solar, what the impact of solar fluctuations are,
there are a lot of things we don't know.

Until we understand the mechanisms better, we don't know. I don't know.
I don't know anybody who does know.
--

Warnest Regards

Bonzo

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods
but by perpetual repetition." Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of
Meteorology, MIT

son of a bitch

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 1:30 am

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have you thought about getting a job at the weather bureau?

Tunderbar

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:04 am

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On Apr 30, 3:08 pm, "Ouroboros_Rex" <i...@casual.com> wrote:

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0BZN0 wrote:
The Ideal Climate

Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus Geology, Western Washington
University, author of 8 books, 150 journal publications with focus on
geomorphology; glacial geology; Pleistocene geochronology;
environmental and engineering geology.

CBS-TV, 60 Minutes, Burlington, Washington

March 30, 2008

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/DonEasterbrookInterviewTranscript.pdf

KLC: For the record, Don, if you gave a gift to the world and
controlled the thermostat, where would you place us with regard to
climate history?

DJE: If I had to pick a climate that was good for the whole world, the
perfect climate would be around the Medieval Warm Period.

KLC: Which is similar to where we are now.

DJE: We're slightly below it.

Another ridiculous lie.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/medieval.html- Hide quoted text -

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lol

YGN

Ouroboros_Rex

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:08 pm

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0BZN0 wrote:

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Another ridiculous lie.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/medieval.html

0BZN0

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:53 pm

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"Ouroboros_Rex" <its@casual.com> wrote in message
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0BZN0 wrote:
The Ideal Climate

Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus Geology, Western
Washington
University, author of 8 books, 150 journal publications with focus on
geomorphology; glacial geology; Pleistocene geochronology;
environmental and engineering geology.

CBS-TV, 60 Minutes, Burlington, Washington

March 30, 2008
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/DonEasterbrookInterviewTranscript.pdf
KLC: For the record, Don, if you gave a gift to the world and
controlled the thermostat, where would you place us with regard to
climate history?
DJE: If I had to pick a climate that was good for the whole world,
the
perfect climate would be around the Medieval Warm Period.
KLC: Which is similar to where we are now.
DJE: We're slightly below it.

Another ridiculous lie.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/medieval.html

You and the IPCC are the liars!

"We have to get rid of the Mediaeval Warm Period"

Confided to geophysicist David Deming by the IPCC (1995)

Warmest Regards

Bonzo

"The question scientists should now be asking is not how much it will
warm over the next 50 to 100 years, but why has it warmed so little
during the major carbon dioxide buildup?" Patrick J. Michaels,
Environmental Scientist , University of Virginia

V-for-Vendicar

Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 11:44 pm

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"son of a bitch" <bitch@gripes.com.au.org.ml.gov> wrote

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have you thought about getting a job at the weather bureau?

Do you think it would pay as much as the Propaganda Industry pays him to
post nonsense here?

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