http://theresilientearth.com/?q=cont...global-warming
http://www.economist.com/displayStor...ry_id=14252800 [nothing new under sun]

Submitted by Doug L. Hoffman on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 15:00

Not satisfied with blaming modern civilization for causing rampant climate change, now a small
group of scientists are saying that everything went wrong once humans stopped being
hunter-gatherers 9,000 years ago. The hypothesis, first advanced in 2003 by University of Virginia
palaeoclimatologist William F. Ruddiman, remains controversial even among global warming true
believers. Ruddiman now claims to have proven his critics wrong, much to the glee of the
blame-humanity-first wing of the eco-activist community.

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The easily dismissed EAH example aside, there exists a significant thread that runs through much of
the bad climate science done over the past several decades. The mainstream climate science
community seems to have blinkered itself with respect to historical precedents in the climate
record. The IPCC seems only interested in the past few hundred years, probably because the well
documented climate variations which occurred over the course of the Holocene don't fit their models
or their world view. Others, like Ruddiman and his colleagues, only go back far enough to convince
themselves they have stumbled on something "unprecedented," which naturally means they can blame it
on H. sapiens. Moreover, none of the CO2 driven global warming proponents wishes to acknowledge
that there have been ice ages when the levels of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere have been
many times higher than today's. Climate science's myopic view of the past allows it continue
attributing climate change to CO2 and the blame to humanity with a clear conscience.