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Originally Posted by ScaredWebWarrior
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Originally Posted by Graham
Tree ring evidence? Ice Cores? Layers of ocean sediment? There seems to be a fair bit of hard evidence from where I'm looking.
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It's only 'hard' evidence if you accept their interpretation of things which are in no way hard/fast proof. They just suggest the way the climate might have been. |
Yes, they do only "suggest", but a lot of suggestions add up to something more than just circumstantial evidence.
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And tree rings don't go that far back. If we're looking for an Ice Age, then consider that the last one was between 10000 and 50000 years ago!
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They are, however, indicative of the way that the climate has varied in the "recent" (geologically speaking) past and how events such as volcanic eruptions etc (cf
1816 - The Year Without a Summer may affect the situation.
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Originally Posted by Graham
This is disingenuous. It's not a matter of whether it will rain over your house next Friday, it's the effect on the whole system.
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Quite - so MUCH more difficult, hence so more likely to be wrong.
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Which is still being entirely disingenuous.