...and it's been over three centuries in the making, using 100,000 Royal Navy ship's logbooks.
Captain Cook (1728 - 1779) was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain in the Royal Navy.
Lord Nelson (1758 - 1805) was a British flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars.
The two British sea heroes have been dead for more than 200 years but they both aquired evidence in the fight against climate change alarmists fanatics.
Their ships' logs, and thousands more like them, have revealed that recent global warming is not so unusual after all. The new evidence was uncovered by England's Met Office ( http://www.metoffice.gov.uk ) and other experts. They scoured more than 6,000 Royal Navy logs dating from the 1600s.
Maritime historian Dr Sam Willis says: "Ships' officers recorded air pressure, wind strength, air and sea temperatures and other weather conditions. From these records, scientists can build a detailed picture of past weather and climate."
The findings are startling. They show that the earth went through a period of global warming in the 1730s that could NOT have been man-made. And then there were freak storms that occurred in the 1680s and 1690s. They were the coldest decades in what is known as the Little Ice Age - so could NOT have been caused by man-made global warming.
Captain Cook mapped much of the Pacific before he was killed in Hawaii in a clash with the natives in 1779.
Lord Nelson, who maintained his ships' logs himself, covered the Arctic, West Indies, south east Asia and the Mediterranean before his death at the Battle Of Trafalgar off the coast of Spain in 1805.
Other valuable records include those of the East India Company, which controlled much of the trade between Britain and Asia with its ships. Evidence from the many logs, which are still being studied, will be published in respected science journal Climatic Change.
Geographer Dr Dennis Wheeler, of Sunderland University, said: "The British archives contain more than 100,000 Royal Navy logbooks from around 1670 to 1850 alone. They are a stunning resource. Global warming is a reality, but our data show climate science is complex. It is wrong to take particular events and link them to carbon dioxide emissions."
(Please forward to Al Gore)
Everything you need to know about the current climate debate:
Hydrogen - American Energy in 2010 and Beyond
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog3.php/2010/01/08/hydrogen-american-energy-in-2010-and-bey
What If All the Ice Melts? - Myths and Realities
http://tobuds.com/blogs/full-story/myth.htm
Kill the Polar Bears! - They're Destroying Our Planet!
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2010/01/03/kill-the-polar-bears-they-re-destroying
Cooling Down the Cassandras - By George F. Will - Washington Post
http://tobuds.com/blogs/full-story/myth2.htm
Carbon Emissions, Human Population, and Ice Ages - What it Really Means
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2009/12/20/carbon-emissions-human-population-and-ic
Evidence Surfaces from 1782 Disputing Global Warming
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2009/12/19/more-evidence-surfaces-disputing-global
New York Times Reports Global Cooling!
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2009/12/18/new-york-times-reports-global-cooling
Copenhagen: Scamming the American Taxpayers with "Climate Change"
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2009/12/12/copenhagen-scamming-the-american-taxpaye
Climategate Scandal - "Harry Read Me" File - Cap and Trade Farce
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog5.php/2009/12/01/climategate-s-harry-read-me-file-is-a-mu
Al Gore's Fear Mongering on "Climate Change" - Cap and Trade Scam
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2009/11/10/obama-s-and-al-gore-s-fear-mongering-on
Obama - Intergovernmental Panel on "Climate Change" (IPCC) - Climategate
http://tobuds.com/blogs/blog1.php/2009/12/06/obama-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate
DETAILED HISTORICAL DATA (from other posts)
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1806245/posts
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/cycles.htm#L_0252
http://www.carbonify.com/carbon-dioxide-levels.htm
http:// www.climateaudit.org
Original source from Sun UK - August 2009:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/special_events/green_week/article1508760.ece
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