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    http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/data/mwp/ ...On Business leaders honed in on climate, carbon, and concrete at Davos posted 2 years, 9 months ago 3 Responses

  • Biz Leaders should reflect on the past - the MWP

    Oh won't it be wonderful if the Green leaders took a few deep breaths and exhaled while think of the WARM past - the Medieval WARMED Up Past!

    Suggested Homework for anyone thinking about the Suisse, and their Alps! (On a personal note, as a young ski racer I attended a camp in 1972 and it was so warm that we had to limit our skiing at the resort Films to between 10k and 14k)

    Now, for the suggested reading du Jour!

    Gorner Glacier, Alps of Valais, Switzerland

    Reference

    Holzhauser, H., Magny, M. and Zumbuhl, H.J. 2005. Glacier and lake-level variations in west-central Europe over the last 3500 years. The Holocene 15: 789-801.

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    Holzhauser et al. present a high-resolution record of glacial variation for Gorner glacier, in the Alps of Valis, Switzerland (~46.05°N, 7.62°E), as part of an effort to develop a 3500-year climate history of west-central Europe. In their estimation, "at no other glacier in the Swiss Alps ... [is] the Mediaeval Climatic Optimum so well documented as at the Gorner glacier," especially when the glacier retreated to levels beyond that of the present-day between AD 800 and 1100. Because glaciers in mountain areas are "highly sensitive to climate changes and thus provide one of nature's clearest signals of warming or cooling and/or dry and wet climate periods," as they describe it, "one can say that the quasi periodical fluctuations of Alpine glaciers were driven by glacier-hostile (warm/dry) and glacier-friendly (cool/wet) periods." On this basis, therefore, one can cautiously conclude that temperatures at Gorner Glacier were likely warmer during the Medieval Warm Period than they have been recently.On Business leaders honed in on climate, carbon, and concrete at Davos posted 2 years, 9 months ago 3 Responses

  • Sigh

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    What a sad comment:

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    It's nice to see the conservative media taking the message of conservation and energy efficiency seriously. Hopefully they will hold their own leaders and readers to the same high standards.

    Ha!

    If someone like Al Gore is going to step on the high platform (platitude) of high Green virtues then he has to walk the talk!

    Gore's loss and is now President Bush's GAIN!

    According to a story in the April 29, 2001, Chicago Tribune, "Bush loves ecology -- at home," the president's house is a model of ecological purity.

    "The 4,000-square-foot house is a model of environmental rectitude, wrote freelance reporter Rob Sullivan. "Geothermal heat pumps located in a central closet circulate water through pipes buried 300 feet deep in the ground where the temperature is a constant 67 degrees; the water heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. Systems such as the one in this `eco-friendly' dwelling use about 25 percent of the electricity that traditional heating and cooling systems utilize.

    "A 25,000-gallon underground cistern collects rainwater gathered from roof runs; wastewater from sinks, toilets and showers goes into underground purifying tanks and is also funneled into the cistern. The water from the cistern is used to irrigate the landscaping surrounding the four-bedroom home. Plants and flowers native to the high prairie area blend the structure into the surrounding ecosystem."

    Gore talks the talk, the president walks the walk.
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