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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
You seem to have skipped the glacier melting video.
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I asked the question about Greenland on the basis of it.
Glaciers retreat and advance. They have before and will do again. Just like temperature goes up and down over time. The UK has had lower temperatures before - 1947 and 1963 were as bad as today, maybe even worse. The winters in Europe during WW2 were especially severe.
The Hockey Stick, which depicts a stable temp with a rapid warming in the 2nd half of the 20th century, was kind of made up - its a reconstruction. And a statistically questionable one at best.
The fact that we do know is that the world will
not remain at a constant temperature. It has varied prior to any effect we could have had, and it balanced back before swinging the other way over time. Quite a lot of history, empires waxing and waning, disasters such as famine, and population growth map quite well to temperature rising and falling all the time. In fact a rising temperature was usually celebrated as being a good thing.
Please also see the article I linked to on hurricane deaths.
There are levels of skepticism, I'm on the 'nothing has been proven to be anything other than normal given previous history' side, with Lindzen.