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Contrary to popular belief in climatic stability during recent times,
the Earth's
climate of the past 1000 years has changed significantly.
The Medieval climatic optimum (AD 700-1200) was a time of extremely
favorable climate in northern Europe. Harvests were good, fishing was
abundant,
sea ice remained far to the north, vineyards flourished 300 miles north
of their
present limits, and famine was rare. This was the period of great Viking
expansion
from Scandinavia. Viking settlements were based on cereal grains (wheat
and
barley) and dairy herds (goats, sheep, and cattle).
Iceland began settling in AD 874 and soon became an independent
republic.
Greenland was colonized in AD 985 by Erik the Red. By the 12th century,
two sizeable communities existed in southwestern Greenland.
During the Medieval climatic optimum, sea level stood at least a half
meter
higher in southern Florida than today from the first through tenth
centuries.
In other words, sea levels in the Atlantic have
fallen at least
19 inches in the last 1,000 years.
Climatic deterioration began in the 1200s; glaciers expanded in
Iceland and in
the Alps. Vineyards began declining in Germany and by the 1300s had
completely
disappeared in England. Fishing replaced cereal grains as the main
source of food
in Iceland, and sea ice expanded southward between Greenland and
Iceland.
Around 1340-50 the more northerly of the two Greenland communities was
abandoned to the Inuits. By 1510, only Inuits remained. Cold climate
reduced
dairy production, and extensive sea ice hampered essential trade with
Europe.
Across the Pacific Islands, during the period AD 1270-1475, sea level
fell
by more than a meter and temperatures declined an average 1½EC.
El Niño
increased in frequency, and precipitation increased.
Sea levels fell by more than three feet in a thousand years!
And we’re worried about a rise of .03 millimeters (supposedly)
per year?
Please note that "El Niño increased in frequency, and
precipitation increased."
That’s exactly what is happening today!
That’s how ice ages begin!
From Climatic History of the Holocene, by James S. Aber
http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/ice/lec19/lec19.htm
Earth’s climate during the last 1,000 years
Medieval climatic optimum (AD 700-1200).
Medieval glaciation (AD 1200-1460).
Brief climatic improvement (AD 1460-1560).
Little Ice Age (AD 1560-1890).
Modern climatic optimum (AD 1890-2000).
See also:
Sea levels are
also falling in the Maldives! (in the Indian Ocean)
See Sea levels are
falling!
.
Sea levels
are also falling in Tuvalu (in the Pacific Ocean)
See
Falling Sea
Levels
.
Sea levels are
also falling in the Arctic Ocean
See Arctic Sea Level Falling
.
Claim that sea level is rising is
total fraud
So says Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner, head of the Paleogeophysics
and
Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden.
See
Rising Sea Level
Claim a Total Fraud
.
Antarctic Ice Sheet
Growing – Sea Levels Falling
Worldwide
8 Nov 06 -
Antarctic
Ice Sheet Growing – Sea Levels Falling
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