The Times ran an article about Shaun Marcott and his team at Oregon State University. Marcott claims to have "read" earth's temperature going back 11 thousand years. Naturally (for the NYT) Marcott's temperature "reading" shows temperature's were colder than today, for the last 11 thousand years. Global warming rides again.
Naturally the Times didn't both to explain just how Marcott was able to measure the temperate 10,000 years ago. That's actually quite a trick. Many global warmers have made mistakes, like claiming tree ring wide indicates temperate. (It indicates rainfall).
The Times also quotes the notorious Dr. Michael Mann of Penn State. Mann was exposed in the great Hadley Climate Research Unit document leak as an very partisan warmist not above fudging his results to get the answers that he wants.
Finally, the Times declares a solution to the age old question of "what caused the ice ages". This has been a topic of discussion for the last century or more. There are dozens of theories kicking around, none of them convincing enough to become generally accepted. But this doesn't stop our NYT warmists. The Times boldy declares that variation in the heat of the Sun causes ice ages. Sun gets colder and we have an ice age.
Trouble with this theory is that instrument readings don't support it. We have solar output readings going back to the beginnings of artificial satellites. The instruments are sensitive enough to show the 11 year sun spot cycle. But they don't show any long term variation at all. Solar output today is exactly the same as it was 40 years ago (date of earliest satellite observations). Which suggests that the Sun burns at the same level all the time.
Glad to hear that the Times is so scientifically hep, throwing out new theories as if they were generally accepted. I always believe what I read in the Times.
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