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Subject What happend 5200 yrs ago and may be happening now.

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I browsed some links in his wikipedia page, and one takes to several of his peer revewed publications with pdfs to download. Thompson is clearly a man made global warming advocate. Nevertheless, one should look to the data and forgive his taken a stance on the origins of the weather. In the abstract of this article from 2010 he summarizes his worries:

The Glaciers serve as early indicators of climate change. Over the last 35 years, our research team has
recovered ice-core records of climatic and environmental variations from the polar regions and
from low-latitude, high-elevation ice fields from 16 countries. The ongoing widespread melting of
high-elevation glaciers and ice caps, particularly in low to middle latitudes, provides some of the
strongest evidence to date that a large-scale, pervasive, and, in some cases, rapid change in
Earth's climate system is underway. This paper highlights observations of 20th and 21st century
glacier shrinkage in the Andes, the Himalayas, and on Mount Kilimanjaro. Ice cores retrieved
from shrinking glaciers around the world confirm their continuous existence for periods ranging
from hundreds of years to multiple millennia, suggesting that climatological conditions that
dominate those regions today are different from those under which these ice fields large,
accumulated and have been sustained. The current warming is therefore unusual when viewed
from the millennial perspective provided by multiple lines of proxy evidence and the 160-year
the record of direct temperature measurements. Despite all this evidence, plus the well-documented
continual increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, societies have taken little
action to address this global-scale problem. Hence, the rate of global carbon dioxide emissions
continues to accelerate. As a result of our inaction, we have three options: mitigation,
adaptation, and suffering.
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Man, you don't get it...

It really [b]DOESN'T MATTER[/b] if Lonnie Thompson believes in man-made Global Warming today...

What REALLY matters is that he concluded that [b]5,200 years ago[/b] (exactly at the time when the [b]Mayan calendar[/b] starts) there was  [b]SUDDEN[/b] cooling of the world climate, caused by a [b]drop in the activity of the Sun.[/b]

According to him, this chance was so [b]SUDDEN[/b], that some plants were [b]perfectly preserved[/b] in the ice!!!

And this is not "any" scientist. It's a member of the National Academy of Science of the United States, and a recipient of the National Medal of Science!

Can you see the implications of this?

Due to a drop in the activity of the Sun, there was a [b]SUDDEN[/b] global colling that trapped perfectly preserved plants!

And this happened exactly at the time when the Mayan calendar starts!!!

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MAJOR CLIMATE CHANGE OCCURRED 5,200 YEARS AGO: EVIDENCE SUGGESTS THAT HISTORY COULD REPEAT ITSELF

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson worries that he may have found clues that show history repeating itself, and if he is right, the result could have important implications to modern society.

Thompson has spent his career trekking to the far corners of the world to find remote ice fields and then bring back cores drilled from their centers. Within those cores are the records of ancient climate from across the globe.
Lonnie Thompson

From the mountains of data drawn by analyzing countless ice cores, and a meticulous review of sometimes obscure historic records, Thompson and his research team at Ohio State University are convinced that the global climate has changed dramatically.

But more importantly, they believe it has happened at least once before, and the results were nearly catastrophic to emerging cultures at the time. He outlined his interpretations and fears today at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

A professor of geological sciences at Ohio State and a researcher with the Byrd Polar Research Center, Thompson points to markers in numerous records suggesting that the climate was altered suddenly some 5,200 years ago with severe impacts.

More [link to researchnews.osu.edu]

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