The Roanoke Slant

Ref: From The Sunday Times, August 3, 2008
Captains’ logs yield climate clues
Records kept by Nelson and Cook are shedding light on climate change
Jonathan Leake
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It’s interesting that as every week goes by there is yet another significant scientist and scientific study that demonstrates that we are experiencing a natural global warming cycle that started in 1750, at the end of the little ice age, and that it has very limited connections to human activity.
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Can all these scientists be kooks, nuts, and disaffected politicos? Apparently NOT!
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Clearly the debate is not over and Mr. Gore and his fraternity of UN experts are loosing credibility everyday in spite of their $300 Million dollar advertising campaign and Mr. Gore’s $250,000 speaking fee.
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The following are excerpts from the latest news article:
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4449527.ece
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“The logbooks kept by every naval ship, ranging from Nelson’s Victory and Cook’s Endeavour down to the humblest frigate, are emerging as one of the world’s best sources for long-term weather data.”
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“A preliminary study of 6,000 logbooks has produced results that raise questions about climate change theories. One paper, published by Dr Dennis Wheeler, a Sunderland University geographer, in the journal The Holocene, details a surge in the frequency of summer storms over Britain in the 1680s and 1690s.
Many scientists believe storms are a consequence of global warming, but these were the coldest decades of the so-called Little Ice Age that hit Europe from about 1600 to 1850.
Wheeler and his colleagues have since won European Union funding to extend this research to 1750. This shows that during the 1730s, Europe underwent a period of rapid warming similar to that recorded recently – and which must have had natural origins. “
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Prior Items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/g8-current-natural-global-warming.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/06/global-warming-mis.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/oil-problem-cant-be-fixed.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2008/07/arctic-ice-melting-from-bottom.html
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