The two recent dry summers seen in Europe have led to alarmists believing that climate doomsday has arrived. But The European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) looks at the past to see if this sort of thing is really unusual.
By Axel Robert Göhring (Text translated/edited by P. Gosselin)
Drought completely normal during High Medieval Ages.
Researchers from the German Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Dynamics at the University of Greifswald have shown that drought in the High Middle Ages was completely normal during the summer.
Even if hardly any real scientist dares to say anything against the climate madness, many do their work properly and deliver many small mosaic pieces for dismantling all the fraud.
Last spring, however, one could hear “top physicist” Harald Lesch at the Markus Lanz’s ZDF show claim how climate change would hit quite badly in summer, how the drought of the “record summer” 2019 would have violent effects, especially on the holy German Forest (forest die-off scare came knocking again…).
So what about the drought in the holy German Forest in 2019? Is it real, or “interpreted”?
Well, it’s probably real. But why not? In summer it is hot and dry even in the temperate climate zone of Europe. Mr. Lesch & Co. showed a heat peak and claimed it is man-made climate change.
And when a cold peak appears, then it is only weather – or even proof of climate change. Weather extremes are somehow more frequent today.
Dry summers in Europe not uncommon, new study shows
Biologist Martin Wilmking and his team from the University of Greifswald in the German state of Vorpommern now have shown that dry summers a thousand years ago were not uncommon in northern Germany.
In fact, they were much warmer than today – and this without combustion engines, industry, and motor traffic.
Prof. Wilmking and his biologists evaluated so-called proxy data, i.e. verifiable effects of climate in animate or inanimate nature.
Specifically, the team worked on annual rings in living beech trees and thousand-year-old archaeological timber: the long-established field of expertise is dendroclimatology (Greek: dendron – the tree).
Trees growing faster today
The authors prove once again that our forests are growing much faster today than in the past because agriculture (also traffic & industry) provides them with a lot of fixed nitrogen (ammonium salts).
The modestly increased CO2 content of today’s air also allows the trees to open the stomata of the leaves for a shorter period of time, thus limiting water losses.
In other words, our industrial civilization is considerably HELPING the forest by supplying it with building materials and even water indirectly.
This is nothing new for avid EIKE readers, as we have pointed out more than once that the planet has become much greener in recent decades.
Often dry in the prosperous High Middle Ages
If one includes the faster growth of today’s trees, one can conclude in comparison using the annual ring curves of the historical woods that it was often dry in summer in the High Middle Ages.
Even the Rhine, the largest river in Europe, became dry near Cologne. Yet the High and Late Middle Ages were not a phase of decline like the Early Middle Ages.
On the contrary, the courtly, knightly culture flourished in Western and Central Europe. There are tens of thousands of stone castles in Germany, Switzerland, Bohemia, and Austria – several in the Saale valley near EIKE’s home city of Jena.
And if you take a boat trip on the Rhine or Moselle rivers – ruins of stone castles can be seen everywhere.
They all date back to the time after 1000 AD. The stone castles are a testimony to a significant increase in Europe’s economic performance, which can be traced back to the warmth of the Climate Optimum.
The development lasted until the late Middle Ages when it then became much colder again.
Politically correct theories assume that the booming economy overtaxed nature and thus undermined itself.
Certainly not wrong, but without the cold, nature could have recovered faster from the overexploitation.
Warmer is better
Also, findings from graves, for example near Berlin, prove that Brandenburg citizens from the Renaissance period were significantly sicker than their ancestors of the High and Late Middle Ages. The saying rings true: “Cold is bad, warm is good.”
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When anything is bad climate change is automatically assumed to the cause. “Automatically assumed” is quite latterly true. No effort is made to make an explanation as to how or to check history to see if something has happened before. In most cases it has happened before and in the case of hurricanes in the US they were much worse around in the 1880 to 1920 time period.
Its aways the same old same old everything is caused by Global warming,Climate Change everything from burnt toast to rabbit monkeys