Wood Cast Doubt on CO2

We are told that human emissions of CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels is making the world a warmer place in an unprecedented way.

However, “Dr. Christian Schlüchter’s discovery of 4,000-year-old chunks of wood at the leading edge of a Swiss glacier” which indicates that the world was warmer than now during the Minoan  Warm Period raises the question as to how that happened in the absence of rising CO2. Certainly it was not due to fossil fuel powered chariots.  

We have been told by climate change gurus like Al Gore that CO2 levels remained within the 260-300ppm range for 800,000 years so if it was warmer 4000 years ago than now it was not due to the influence of CO2.

This discovery must mean that there are other factors at work that can warm the climate. Until we have an understanding of the natural factors that caused earlier warm periods we cannot discount the possibility that the warming of the late 20th century that has the alarmist tale in a knot was not due to natural factors just as before. How do we tease out the human influence if there is one? We need a valid explanation for the earlier warm periods in order to feel confident that we can identify a human influence for the current warm period. It is obvious that we do not understand climate drivers very well.

This is an important discovery that helps to advance our knowledge of previous climates and to help invalidate the theory of global warming preferred by the IPCC and its supporters. Despite the claims of the ‘Hockey Stick’  it is readily apparent that the past has been warmer and that contemporary temperatures do not stand out in an ‘unprecedented’ manner. If they are not unprecedented then we are not facing an existential climate crisis. And CO2 may be irrelevant to the whole issue.