Europe Now Colder And Drier Than Most Of Last 9,000 Years
A new European Alps hydroclimate reconstruction spanning the years 8980 BC to 2014 CE has been derived from the stable isotopes of 192 trees (Arosio et al., 2025)
The reconstruction clearly distinguishes centennial-scale warm periods such as the Medieval Warm Period, Roman Warm Period, and millennial-scale African Humid Period (when the Sahara was green, lake- and fauna-covered).
These warmer centuries (millennia) were accompanied by wetter, much more humid climates.
In contrast, the coldest centuries of the Holocene, such as the Little Ice Age (18th and 19th centuries) and Late Antique Little Ice Age (6th century), had the driest hydroclimates with the “most severe summer droughts of the past 9,000 years.”
Mass migration punctuated these cold periods.
Interestingly, the hydroclimate reconstruction shows the modern period (1900-2014) is no wetter (or warmer) than the 19th century’s Little Ice Age – the coldest, driest period of the last 9,000 years.
There has been no dramatic change or “uptick” in the last century.
See more here climatechangedispatch.com
Header image: John Houghton
Editor’s note: this study reinforces the graph Hubert Lamb at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit created, which the IPCC used in their first assessment report back in 1990. It clearly shows the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than today. Then the IPCC became totally politicised and replaced Hubert Lamb’s graph with Micheal Mann’s infamous Hokey Schtick, as Lord Monckton so comically nicknamed it.
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Robert Beatty
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It seems we are overdue for another cooling event, if it has not already started. The study impetus should be in this direction, not global warming.
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Jerry Krause
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Hi Robert,
I have recently begun measuring the “temperature of the cloudless sky” with a infrared thermometer and even during midday the temperature is below 10F and near sunrise it has been neg-10 for a few days earlier.
Except for high elevations and Antarctica I do not believe there have been any glaciers but in the USA and Europe there is clear evidence of glaciers below 45 degrees latitude and there is some evidence that the glacial periods are cyclic with a period of about 15,000 years plus or minus a 1,000 years or so.
Hence I believe life will end where I live in Salem OR within a 1,000 years or less.
Have a good day
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