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A Very "Inconvenient Truth".

How often do we find that the lessons from history are being ignored?

I have been reading quite a bit about the history of our global temperatures.

I am not going to go into reference materials and sources here. However if any one really wants to authenticate my sources I will be able to.

In the last 5000 years there have been four recorded or researched warm periods.

The Minoan Warm Period: 200 years around 375 BC

The Roman Warm Period: 200 years around 175 BC

The Medieval Warm Period: 200 years around 900 AD

The Late 20th Century Warm Period: 200 years around 1950 AD

There is ample geological evidence and research that shows that these periods existed.

During the Mediaeval Warm Period, around or shortly before 1200 AD, evidence suggests that the Vikings colonized Greenland. They appear to have abandoned Iceland and Greenland around 1400 AD as global temperatures fell.

It may have been the cold or even the icing over of the main sea trading routes that resulted in their abandoning Greenland and Iceland.

Shortly before 1400 AD, the last Little Ice Age commenced. It lasted to about 1910 AD

From around 1650 AD to 1820 AD The River Thames Froze over. The Freezing of the River was celebrated with a Winter Carnival.

It was during this period that Charles Dickens popularized the romance of the Old Fashioned White Christmas.

The unusually cold summer of 1816, the year without a summer, forced Mary Shelley to spend her summer indoors. She and her husband entertained each other with horror stories, one of which resulted in her writing the novel Frankenstein.

The interesting thing about the four warm periods is that the current warm period has been the coolest of the four with a tapered cooling of the warm periods from the Minoan to the current warm period.

The current global temperatures indicate that the peak high temperature for the current warm period has already passed.

It looks like the lessons of our history have been overlooked with the current global warming predictions and scaremongering.

It appears to me and a great number of the scientific community that the lessons of history form "An Inconvenient Truth" about the politics of "An Inconvenient Truth".

The current weather extremes in the northern Hemisphere would seem to be heralding the advance of the next little ice age.

Best wishes.

Reg Whelan