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July 25, 2007 by Adrianne (not verified), 2 years 15 weeks ago
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Fred,
Certainly! Climate is a very complex phenomenon, but for understanding the complex matter better, it might be very helpful to review an event that happened without the direct influence of the sun: the Arctic Warming in the late 1910s, respectively the Big Spitsbergen Warming in winter 1918/19, to which I gave a link in my previous comment: arctic warming theory. The first to wonder about this subject was B.J. Birkeland who stressed in his findings, back in 1930 (Met.ZeitS. 1930), that it could “probably be the greatest yet known on earthâ€. And H.W.Ahlmann, observing a rapid increase from 1918-1940, noted in: The Geographical Journal, 1946, that this part of the Arctic “may, without exaggeration, be said to have experienced a climatic revolutionâ€. This “revolution†cannot have come from the sun, not from CO2, but only from the sea, as thoroughly explained in the given reference. After all, the temperatures ‘exploded’ during the winter season when no sun was shining.