You know, the last time I checked, this was well before the existence of homo sapiens sapiens, or any of our early ape-man/man-ape ancestors. Could it be that global warming is a transitory, natural phenomenon – followed by equally natural global cooling back to the norm?

The new analysis confirms that the Arctic Ocean warmed remarkably 55 million years ago, which is when many scientists say the extraordinary planetwide warm-up called the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum must have been caused by an enormous outburst of heat-trapping, or greenhouse, gases like methane and carbon dioxide. But no one has found a clear cause for the gas discharge. Almost all climate experts agree that the present-day gas buildup is predominantly a result of emissions from smokestacks, tailpipes and burning forests.

Which means, of course, that their position is “global warming is a natural phenomenon – but this time is different,” despite the fact that they lack any evidence to differentiate between the two.

Dafydd at Big Lizards notes the problems this discovery creates for global warming alarmists, and offers the following suggestion.

We need a twenty-year moratorium on "doing" anything about climate Instead, let's commit vast treasure and human resources to improving our basic scientific understanding of climatology and all that's related. It would make little difference in the projected rise of MGT; we would better be able to decide whether the current rise was natural or anthropogenic; and even if we did decide to "do something," those twenty years would allow us to craft a much more intelligent and effective "thing" to do than striking out blindly today.

There is no significant downside to sentencing globaloney to a "timeout".

I agree wholeheartedly – we need to truly understand the “problem” – and the mechanisms at work – before implementing a “solution” that may or may not be necessary.

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