Watts Up With That (aka WUWT) is a long standing anti-AGW, human climate change skeptic site.
Which is fine, all the points raised there are worth looking into and are addessed elsewhere. That said WUWT is going to overstate the importance of any percieved cracks in the AGW argument and will misrepresent various things.
In this case, straight out of the gate:
Medieval Warm Period Undeniable, [..] the troublesome Medieval Warm Period, which has long been a thorn for climate alarmists [..] That’s why people would rather keep the Medieval Warm Period quiet.
That's a lot of emotive loading and passive aggressive accusation.
My background is large scale geophysical exploration for minerals and energy - country scale surveys, large area resource maps, etc. FWiW the majority of people involved in global scale geophysics working for industry have little to no issue with AGW .. it's fairly straightforward.
* Very few (none that I know) in the geophysical, climatic, etc. game deny the existence of the Medieval Warm Period - to imply that some "keep it quiet" or deny it is weasel phrasing.
* Climate alarmists.
You swing a ball on a long cable, it precesses. You heat up one end of a bar of steel, the heat flows. You put more blankets on the bed, your feet heat up. You put more insulation in the air, more energy is trapped.
That's AGW climate change - the implications should cause some alarm, it's more important to act.
So that's the WUWT framing on the MWP .. it's apparently contrary to AGW and can disprove it (it doesn't) and every paper tangential to MWP is cast to be stronger than it is and to be a secret source that breaks AGW.
Out in the mainstream climate scientists have no issue looking a the MWP, it's not CO2 based, it's generally thought to be quite localised to parts of Europe and elswhere and less of a global change in global mean surface energy than a specific kind of rebalancing (perhaps related to ocean currents).
Watts Up With That (aka WUWT) is a long standing anti-AGW, human climate change skeptic site.
Which is fine, all the points raised there are worth looking into and are addessed elsewhere. That said WUWT is going to overstate the importance of any percieved cracks in the AGW argument and will misrepresent various things.
In this case, straight out of the gate:
That's a lot of emotive loading and passive aggressive accusation.My background is large scale geophysical exploration for minerals and energy - country scale surveys, large area resource maps, etc. FWiW the majority of people involved in global scale geophysics working for industry have little to no issue with AGW .. it's fairly straightforward.
* Very few (none that I know) in the geophysical, climatic, etc. game deny the existence of the Medieval Warm Period - to imply that some "keep it quiet" or deny it is weasel phrasing.
* Climate alarmists.
You swing a ball on a long cable, it precesses. You heat up one end of a bar of steel, the heat flows. You put more blankets on the bed, your feet heat up. You put more insulation in the air, more energy is trapped.
That's AGW climate change - the implications should cause some alarm, it's more important to act.
So that's the WUWT framing on the MWP .. it's apparently contrary to AGW and can disprove it (it doesn't) and every paper tangential to MWP is cast to be stronger than it is and to be a secret source that breaks AGW.
Out in the mainstream climate scientists have no issue looking a the MWP, it's not CO2 based, it's generally thought to be quite localised to parts of Europe and elswhere and less of a global change in global mean surface energy than a specific kind of rebalancing (perhaps related to ocean currents).