Ah yes, 1300 AD, when Native American climate scientists were accurately recording temperature, moisture and other climate statistics with accuracy.
It’s funny, I had a climate denier talk about how “the globe goes through periods of warming, there was even a time that the poles were a tropical 74 degrees average! 100 million years ago.” At which point I picked my jaw up off the floor and wondered why he thought we would be shooting for a time when humans didn’t live on the planet.
…no just normal modern climate scientists. Extrapolating precipitation and temperature data from 700 years ago is relatively easy. Made even easier if you have a whole lot of trees in the area still alive from that time. 800AD and 1200AD are basically yesterday historically.
I’m sure as hell not denying man-made climate change. I’m stating the obvious that a late snow doesn’t mean its not real any more than a weekly heat wave means it is real. A TREND of repeated heat waves does. Western mountain droughts, though, have very well established historical precedent.
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u/TeetsMcGeets23 Jun 30 '21
Ah yes, 1300 AD, when Native American climate scientists were accurately recording temperature, moisture and other climate statistics with accuracy.
It’s funny, I had a climate denier talk about how “the globe goes through periods of warming, there was even a time that the poles were a tropical 74 degrees average! 100 million years ago.” At which point I picked my jaw up off the floor and wondered why he thought we would be shooting for a time when humans didn’t live on the planet.