{"id":254502,"date":"2023-04-26T13:49:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T11:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254502"},"modified":"2023-04-26T13:49:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T11:49:28","slug":"weird-weather-and-our-ignorance-of-earths-climate-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=254502","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Weird Weather\u2019 and Our Ignorance of Earth\u2019s Climate History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From\u00a0Townhall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0MARK LEWIS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When someone tells me, \u201cBoy, the weather sure has been weird in recent years,\u201d I am pretty confident of two things: \u00a0one, they have bought into the climate change hoax, and two, they know absolutely nothing about history. \u00a0Upon hearing the \u201cweather is weird lately\u201d comment, I immediately ask two questions: \u00a0\u201cCompared to what?\u201d and \u201cHow do you know what the weather was like 200 years ago?\u201d \u00a0To the first question, they might mumble something like, \u201cwell, it\u2019s weirder than it was a few years ago\u201d and to the second question, they have no answer. \u00a0 Because they don\u2019t know. \u00a0Except in general, I don\u2019t, either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, the weather is weirder than it was 5 years ago, but maybe not as weird as it was 205 years ago.  Brilliant.  Let\u2019s destroy the world\u2019s economy on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lots of tornados in America so far this spring?  Weird weather!  Climate change!  Global warming!  Snow in the northern plains in late April?  Uhh…has to be climate change.  Somehow.  \u201cIt\u2019s been a long winter,\u201d I heard the nice lady on The Weather Channel say a few days ago.  She probably will never be heard from again.  You people in Montana have fun sweeping that \u201cglobal warming\u201d off your sidewalks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an historian, I have frequently, in various writings, bemoaned the abysmal ignorance of history evident among most Americans today. \u00a0To use history effectively, we must broaden our viewpoint beyond what we had for dinner last night, and especially put events into their historical circumstances. \u00a0The last point is critical and what most people almost never do, simply because they don\u2019t know enough history to accomplish it. \u00a0This is true with the \u201cclimate change\u201d discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One conundrum is that thinking is an exercise which requires a little bit of training and labor, more than most folks want to accede to. \u00a0People don\u2019t think, and they often don\u2019t think because they have little knowledge to think about. \u00a0You must \u201cknow\u201d something before you can \u201cthink\u201d rationally about it, and Americans know virtually nothing about history. \u00a0 This is obviously true regarding climate history. \u00a0And Al Gore has made millions off that ignorance while Joe Biden has destroyed American energy independence via the same method.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, back to the southern tornadoes for a moment.  Yes, terrible.  Can anybody tell me the weather in Mississippi on March 20, 1701?  How about in central Utah on June 13, 1666?  Mr. \u201cWeird Weather Genius,\u201d please enlighten me about the weather in western Arizona on October 3, 1312.  Florida panhandle on April 15, 1512.  Manhattan Island from February 5, 772 B.C. to March 25, 756 B.C.  Don\u2019t know?  Then how do you know our current weather is \u201cweird\u201d?  How many tornadoes did Oklahoma have in 1412?  1639?  1845?  You have no clue, have you.  All you know is the \u201cweather is weird ” and \u201cglobal warming\/climate change is true\u201d because CNN and Greta Thunberg tell you so.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut the weather records show warming…\u201d \u00a0Yes, that is true\u2014over the last few decades. \u00a0How far do accurate instrument-measured weather records go back? \u00a0Maybe 140 years, tops. \u00a0So how do we know about specific weather events, on specific days or even months, before those records started being kept? \u00a0We don\u2019t. \u00a0Climate scientists can tell us weather trends over decades and centuries, but they cannot tell you how many tornadoes Mississippi had in any month, for thousands of years, prior to recent record-keeping. \u00a0It is folly to say our weather is \u201cweird\u201d because we don\u2019t know what \u201cnormal\u201d was like in the past. \u00a0It may have been even weirder. \u00a0Thirty years is nothing historically, and the planet shouldn\u2019t be revolutionized based on information over such a small sample period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On top of that, satellite data (the most accurate current weather instrumentation) demonstrates that there has been no true \u201cglobal warming\u201d since 2013 (check Marc Morano\u2019s \u201cClimate Depot\u201d website for more information about this).  There is a reason the switch was made from \u201cglobal warming\u201d to \u201cclimate change\u201d\u2014there ain\u2019t been no warming recently.  Climate scientists also know, through various methods, that the earth was warmer in the year 100 A.D. than in 2000 A.D.  The 2000-year trend, except for the \u201cMedieval Warming Period\u201d, has been towards colder weather.  Since about 1900, there has been gradual, but inconsistent, warming.  We can see the developments of weather, but no specific places or dates (Mississippi, April 3, 1102). Thus, there is absolutely no way of knowing if, historically, this spring\u2019s tornados are \u201cweird\u201d or \u201cnormal.\u201d  It may have been worse 1,000 years ago.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate scientists also speak of the \u201cMedieval Warming Period\u201d (appx. 1000-1300 A.D.), followed by nearly 500 years of a \u201cLittle Ice Age.\u201d \u00a0The earth only began to recover from that last century, though predictions of another \u201cice age\u201d were widespread in the 1950s-70s. \u00a0Now the trend is back to greater warmth. \u00a0Except for the long winter this year. \u00a0But, of course, the hotter temperatures, especially over the past 30 years, are the evidence \u201cglobal warmists\u201d use for their theory. \u00a0And it is man\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But how did humans cause temperatures to rise 2000 years ago in the Roman period?  What industries did medieval men invent that created the Medieval Warming Period?  Peasant farming, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas Jefferson, in 1799, noted there was generally less snow then than 60 years earlier (there was indeed a warming trend in the 1700s).  Did mankind cause that, too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little history can work wonders in debunking hoaxes and myths.  That is why Karl Marx so accurately said, \u201cKeep people from their history and they are easily controlled.\u201d  People are being ‘controlled\u2019 now by Leftist, \u201cclimate change\u201d lies, and one of the major reasons for it is an abysmal ignorance of history.  Marano (\u201cClimate Depot\u201d) and others are trying.  But they are being swamped and overwhelmed.  As long as the Left controls the global narrative and the American education system, our climb is decidedly uphill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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