Michael wrote:
> Eric Swanson wrote:
> > Michael,
> >
> > Where is your evidence that the Medieval Warm Period was as warm as
> > the recent past?
> >
>
> Recent past? Yesterday? Lat Monday? 1950?
>
> The evidence is in tree rings and the
> archaeological/paleontological remains of the people who migrated from
> Siberia to Greenland 1,000 years ago, following whales migrating across
> the Arctic Ocean.
>
> Hughes, M.K. and H.F. Diaz
> <http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/medieval.html>, "Was
> there a 'Medieval Warm Period' and if so, when and where?" */Climatic
> Change,/* Volume 26, pp. 109-142. 1994.
>
> > Furthermore, if the Greenland Ice Sheet has been melting so strongly
> > since the LGM, how come there's still layers of recent ice resting on
> > the top in locations such as those used to extract ice cores? Also,
> > the rise in sea level after the LGM reached a plateau about 8k yr BP
> > during the Holocene Optimum and has remained at roughly the same level
> > until the beginning of the Industrial Age. If the Greenland Ice Sheet
> > had continued to melt, would not the sea level have continued to rise?
> >
>
>
>
> It's not melt that's solely important, it's melt and precipitation,
> among many other factors.
>
> Glaciers are not ice cubes.
>
> Hayduke
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