{"id":415684,"date":"2025-12-02T10:34:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=415684"},"modified":"2025-12-02T10:34:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:34:26","slug":"more-evidence-ne-china-is-not-cooperating-with-the-alarmist-global-warming-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=415684","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0More Evidence NE China Is Not Cooperating with the Alarmist Global Warming Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chinese Loess Plateau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From No Trick Zone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Kenneth Richard<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Northeastern China was at least 5\u00b0<\/em>C (and up to 9\u00b0<\/em>C) warmer than today and droughts (and floods) were far more extreme when CO2 levels were a \u201csafe\u201d 265 ppm.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In a new study<\/a><\/strong>, scientists have determined that northeastern China\u2019s droughts were far more frequent and intense during the Little Ice Age (LIA) than in the 1950-2021 era of supposedly \u201calarming\u201d global warming. During the LIA, which the study clarifies as spanning from 1568 to 1850, there were 59 extreme dry events (droughts) in this region, whereas from 1850 to 2021, there were only 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authors further assert the frequency of extreme dry events have long been associated with cold periods in paleoclimate reconstructions, whereas extreme wet events (floods) are linked to warm periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur results demonstrate that Northeast Asia was relatively dry during cold periods and comparatively wet during warm periods. \u2026 For example, Northeast Asia experienced a wet MWP [Medieval Warm Period], which was the latest warm period.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, the relative humidity of northeast China during the last 40 years was more similar to the levels during the cold LIA than during the 1850 to 1950 period, when there were frequent extreme wet events and almost no extreme dry events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In sum, the \u201cmild drought from the 1950s to the present day does not exceed natural variability\u201d when considering the context of the past 454 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026long-term hydroclimate records indicate that both the frequency and intensity of recent drought episodes fall well within the range of natural variability observed during the LIA.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Source:\u00a0Liu et al. 2025<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Several other studies lend support to the conclusion that a warmer climate is a wetter climate. A paleoclimate reconstruction study utilizing the known limiting temperature for rice agriculture suggests not only that summer temperatures were 5-7\u00b0C warmer than present (>26\u00b0C vs. 20-21\u00b0C today) during the Early Holocene, but \u201csummer rainfall was about 30% higher than modern between about 10,000 and 6,000 cal yr BP\u201d (Dodson et al., 2021<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe current mean July temperatures are about 20\u201321\u00b0C, however, these are estimated to be above 26\u00b0C between 8,500 and 4,200 cal yr BP.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Source:\u00a0Dodson et al., 2021<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A study published last year (Guo et al., 2024<\/a><\/strong>) indicates today\u2019s Loess Plateau mean annual air temperature (MAAT) is 9.86\u00b0C, with a mean annual precipitation of 531 mm. From ~2,700 years ago until about 300 years ago the MAAT was 17.02\u00b0C (>7\u00b0C warmer) and yearly precipitation averaged 903 mm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Source:\u00a0Guo et al., 2024<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The modern era of \u201calarming\u201d global warming is actually 5-7\u00b0C and up to 7-9\u00b0C colder in northeastern China (Zheng et al., 2018<\/a><\/strong>) than it was during the much warmer Early Holocene, when CO2 was a \u201csafe\u201d 265 ppm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026mean annual air temperatures [MAAT] in NE China during the early Holocene were 5-7\u00b0C higher than today.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMAAT records from the Chinese Loess Plateau also suggested temperature maxima 7-9\u00b0C higher than modern during the early Holocene\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Source:\u00a0Zheng et al., 2018<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Northern China was also much warmer than today throughout much of the last 10,000 years. Using the known growth temperature limit for\u00a0Ceratopteris\u00a0<\/em>as evidence, scientists have determined the mean January temperature in northern China was \u201c7.7\u00b0C higher than today\u201d throughout the Mid Holocene (Zhang et al., 2022<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image Source:\u00a0Zhang et al., 2022<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In sum, there is nothing even remotely unusual about the modern temperatures or precipitation in northeastern Asia that would suggest humans are responsible for warming the climate or intensifying rainfall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a\u00a0new study, scientists have determined that northeastern China\u2019s droughts were far more frequent and intense during the Little Ice Age (LIA) than in the 1950-2021 era of supposedly \u201calarming\u201d global warming. 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