{"id":443869,"date":"2026-05-12T11:34:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=443869"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:04:46","slug":"new-paleo-research-modern-climate-change-has-had-no-apparent-impact-on-precipitation-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=443869","title":{"rendered":"New Paleo Research: Modern \u2018Climate Change\u2019 Has Had No Apparent Impact On Precipitation Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NoTrickZone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Three new tree ring reconstructions (spanning 1320-2021, 1720-2014, and 1657-2020 CE) document the dominance of natural variability in the paleoclimate record.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last 300 to 700 years, no precipitation pattern has emerged in Scandinavia, Asia, or Central Greece which can be linked to anthropogenic impacts or post-1950 CO2 increases (Stridbeck et al., 2026<\/a><\/strong>, Cai et al., 2026<\/a><\/strong>, Sakalis and Kastridis, 2025<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extreme precipitation deficits (droughts) were much more common and pronounced across sub-Arctic Sweden and the Tibetan Plateau (TP) before 1950 than since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, there were three TP megadroughts from 1865-1950, whereas only one occurred from 1950-2014 (Cai et al., 2026<\/a><\/strong>). TP severe drought years were worse in 1735 and 1914 than in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Image Source: Stridbeck et al., 2026<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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Image Source: Cai et al., 2026<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Image Source:\u00a0Sakalis and Kastridis, 2025<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three new tree ring reconstructions (spanning 1320-2021, 1720-2014, and 1657-2020 CE) document the dominance of natural variability in the paleoclimate record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":443864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","wpai_generated_summary":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691842978,691842976,691842974,691842977,691842975],"class_list":["post-443869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-central-greece-and-the-balkan-peninsula","tag-sub-arctic-sweden-scandinavia","tag-three-studies","tag-tibetan-plateau-southern-asia","tag-tree-ring-based-paleoclimate-reconstructions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1Rtb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":305590,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=305590","url_meta":{"origin":443869,"position":0},"title":"IPCC\u2019s New \u201cHockey Stick\u201d Temperature Graph","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"03\/02\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The United Nations\u2019 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published\u00a0their latest assessment report\u00a0(AR6) in 2021. 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