Today’s silly story comes from BBC News (where else?)
More ancient monuments and historic ruins will be uncovered as extreme weather caused by climate change gets more frequent, an expert has said.
The remains of a shipwreck off the Abergele coast dating back 150 years was revealed by July’s thunderstorms.
A prehistoric forest and 200 archaeological sites were also unearthed following extreme weather.
Archaeologist Dr. Paul Belford said, “you’ll see more and more of this” as the world warms up.
Experts have “tentatively identified” the recently-uncovered Abergele wreck as the 35-tonne wooden sloop Endeavour that sunk without trace in gales in October 1854.
The remains of the 45-ft-long vessel were found at Pensarn beach in Conwy county by a member of the public.
“The stormy weather created giant waves which moved the sandbanks and exposed the boat,” said Dr. Belford, chief executive of the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust.
“You’ll see more and more wrecks and ancient monuments uncovered as extreme weather events become more frequent due to the impact of climate change.
“Like the recent shipwreck find, these discoveries can help us answer the questions of our history.
“Hopefully research will also help us learn lessons from the past and aid the fight against climate change.”
The north Wales shipwreck lies in the area known as Abergele Roads, a large area of shoals, near a tidal pond, which is only visible after storms and during low tides.
It comes after a forest buried under water and sand for more than 4,500 years was uncovered between Ynyslas and Borth in Ceredigion by Storm Hannah in May.
The remains of the trees, preserved in the local peat, were exposed by low tides and high winds.
They obviously don’t appreciate the irony of discovering a ship that sank in “extreme weather” in 1854!
And if sea levels are supposedly rising so fast, such wrecks should be unlikely to be found in the future.
But what about extreme weather becoming more frequent? The claim comes from an archaeologist, who we can safely assume knows bugger all about the climate.
Proper meteorologists would have told him that the opposite is true. As the world warms, the differential between polar cold and tropical heat should reduce (as the poles warm faster), thus reducing the intensity of storms in the Temperate Zone.
Maybe our archaeologist friend should have read HH Lamb!
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Yeah Sure i am going to guess that its going to expose the RMS TITANIC way down there in the Atlantic Woo Hoo this one needs a padded cell
I would think that as the oceans rise feet every year, the wrecks would disappear? But, as boringly rational evidence based physicist I don’t understand trendy consensual science you can just make, publish in a controlled journal as peer reviewed, and declare to be consensus that others must believe without the data to prove it? Is the defalt MO to simply take what actually happens and reverse it? Like the inverse convection of the lost heat that was never there into the cold oceans? It’s nice science for dumb people. etc.
Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Egon Spengler: 40 years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes!
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
Mayor Lenny: Enough, I get the point! And what if you’re wrong?
Last year, during a drought in Ireland, a large henge in a grain field was detected by aerial drone photography. I’m not endorsing AGW. However, such occurrences are ripe for exploitation by the Warmists.
I love all these other benefits of a climate that changes .
Isn’t the biggest con-job of all people who pretend humans are going to
control the climate ? I mean you can see the rent seekers trying to screw people out of their money but the notion sold if we just cut back on human generated Co2 well happy days are here again . All from a clown that got a D in science .