Physical Evidence Proves the Fundamental Dishonesty of Climate Change Propaganda

Massive 2000  year old tree remains with running sap, that have thawed from glaciers show that the basis of the climate change theories are fundamentally flawed.

Receding glaciers in Alaska that tore trees in half and then froze the stumps  reveal those old remnants of a warmer era. I like these little “concrete” anecdotes, though their true meaning depends on exactly how old these remains are, and whether that timing correlates with warming in other places.

The retreat of the Mendenhall Glacier reveals the remains of trees which grew more than 2,000 years ago. These ancient forests that have remained frozen beneath the ice for up to 2,350 years. The most recent stumps have been dated by Proff Connor and other researchers as emerging from the Mendenhall are between 1,400 and 1,200 years old. The oldest she’s tested are around 2,350 years old. She’s also dated some at around 1,870 to 2,000 years old. They’ve also documented the glacial advance between 1724 and 1794 A.D. that pushed Huna Tlingit off their land, and written a paper incorporating those cultural and geographic histories. In that paper they cite Tlingit histories recorded by Richard and Nora Dauenhauer as saying that glacier was growing and advancing “faster than a running dog.” 

 The Many remains of frozen humas as well as trees shows that this global cooling happened very quicky and was deadly

Some of the ages of these trees suggest the Roman Warm Period may have occurred at the same time as an Alaskan Warm Period. Evidently, polar bears survived.) These particular tree stumps are a bit too early to tie in with Medieval warm times in Europe. Though, like other places, the glaciers started receding 200 years ago, long before man-made CO2 started to rise.

Receding Swiss glaciers inconveniently reveal 4000 year old forests – and make it clear that glacier retreat is nothing new

Dr. Christian Schlüchter’s discovery of 4,000-year-old chunks of wood at the leading edge of a Swiss glacier was clearly not cheered by many members of the global warming doom-and-gloom science orthodoxy.

This finding indicated that the Alps were pretty nearly glacier-free at that time, disproving accepted theories that they only began retreating after the end of the little ice age in the mid-19th century. As he concluded, the region had once been much warmer than today, with “a wild landscape and wide flowing river.”

Dr. Schlüchter’s report might have been more conveniently dismissed by the entrenched global warming establishment were it not for his distinguished reputation as a giant in the field of geology and paleoclimatology who has authored/coauthored more than 250 papers and is a professor emeritus at the University of Bern in Switzerland.

Then he made himself even more unpopular thanks to a recent interview titled “Our Society is Fundamentally Dishonest” which appeared in the Swiss publication Der Bund where he criticized the U.N.-dominated institutional climate science hierarchy for extreme tunnel vision and political contamination.

Following the ancient forest evidence discovery Schlüchter became a target of scorn. As he observes in the interview, “... My findings thus caught many experts off guard”

 Lots of other evidence exists that there is really nothing new about dramatic glacier advances and retreats. Schlüchter points out that “the forest line was much higher than it is today; there were hardly any glaciers. Nowhere in the detailed travel accounts from Roman times are glaciers mentioned.”

Schlüchter criticizes his critics for focusing on a time period which is “indeed too short.” His studies and analyses of a Rhone glacier area reveal that “the rock surface had [previously] been ice-free 5,800 of the last 10,000 years.”

Distinct solar imprint on climate

What’s more worrisome, Schlüchter’s findings show that cold periods can strike very rapidly. Near the edge of Mont Miné Glacier his team found huge tree trunks and discovered that they all had died in just a single year. The scientists were stunned. That finding, Schlüchter states, confirmed that the sun is the main driver in climate change. 

Today’s “rapid” changes are nothing new

He casts doubt on the UN projection that the Alps will be almost glacier-free by 2100, reminding us that “the system is extremely dynamic and doesn’t function linearly” and that “extreme, sudden changes have clearly been seen in the past“. History’s record is unequivocal on this. Schlüchter also doesn’t view today’s climate warming as anything unusual, and poses a number of unanswered questions:

• Why did the glaciers retreat in the middle of the 19th century, although the large CO2 increase in the atmosphere came later? 
• Why did the earth ‘tip’ in such a short time into a warming phase? 
• Why did glaciers again advance in 1880s, 1920s and 1980s? 

Sooner or later climate science will have to answer the question why the retreat of the glacier at the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850 was so rapid.”

On science: “Our society is fundamentally dishonest”

CO2 fails to answer many open questions. Already we get the sense that hockey stick climate claims are turning out to be rather sorrowful and unimaginative wives’ tales. He summarizes on the refusal to acknowledge the reality of our past: “Our society in fundamentally dishonest“.