EVEN MORE PROOF GLOBAL-WARMING IS NOT MAN-MADE

BBC/NATURE:

Fifty-five million years ago the North Pole was an ice-free zone with tropical temperatures, according to research. A sediment core excavated from 400m (1,300ft) below the seabed of the Arctic Ocean has enabled scientists to delve far back into the region's past. An international team has been able to pin-point the changes that occurred as the Arctic transformed from green house to ice house. The findings are revealed in a trio of papers published in the journal Nature.
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"This time period is associated with a very enhanced green house effect," explained Appy Sluijs, a palaeoecologist from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and the lead author on one of the papers. "Basically, it looks like the Earth released a gigantic fart of green house gases into the atmosphere - and globally the Earth warmed by about 5C (41F). ... Appy Sluijs points out that the data reveals that some of the climate models used to detail the Arctic's history got things wrong, and as they are the same models that predict our future climate they may need adjusting. [He continued:] ... "... our data suggest, natural processes operating in the past have also resulted in a significant warming and cooling of the Arctic."

There were no HUMANS around 55 MILLION years ago, let alone any SUV's or anything man-made which might emit CO2 or any greenhouse gases. Therefore, this proves that the Earth is perfectly capable of warming - and cooling - on its own.

FACT: Man-made CO2 and so-called greenhouse gases have INCREASED steadily since 1840, but global temperatures HAVE NOT STEADILY INCREASED; global temps declined between 1940-1970. This DISPROVES the hypothesis that man-made CO2 or man-made greenhouse gases causes global-warming. CASE CLOSED.

SOME SCIENTISTS THINK THAT THE CAUSE NOW - AND 55 MILLION YEARS AGO - IS THE SUN. (Hat tip PRAIRIE PUNDIT. More HERE - from TAB/CSM. And more on the 55 MILLION year old GLOBAL WARMING era HERE.)

UPDATE - from NRO: (1) an article about a leading scientist AND GLOBAL WARMING SEPTIC, Bill Gray, in the WASH POST. And (2), this comment which may explain why the Leftie Loons have gone full-press on their bogus man-made global warming bogeyman:

"In just three, five, maybe eight years, he [Gray] says, the world will begin to cool again." and it hit me...Holy cow. The global warming alarmists KNOW the earth is going to begin cooling in a few years - and their alarm is that they have to have Kyoto-like programs in place that they can point to as the cause of the cooling.

If they can succeed at this - they effectively control the world. In a few decades they can revive the "earth is cooling and there's an ice age coming" alarmism - and prescribe policies that ensure they have the power they want to manage that impending climate disaster.

I think he is right. Many on the Left know damn well that man-made global-warming is BUNK, but they LIE about it and use scare tactics and demagogue the issue in order to make partisan gains, and increase the power of the State in the marketplace. Others on the Left are just plain old idealistic DUPES.

More HERE.