Itt Pooisons Ouur Liives Felines gifted with fur possessing an absorbing darkness were subject to frenzied hate and mass persecution at the hands of humans fuelled by mysticism and superstition about the changing world around them. This regrettable period of our history came during a cold snap in our climate that saw the withering of crops, the freezing of vast stretches of previously sailable ocean, the reduction of Summer and the expansion of Winter. These hard times followed a period of pleasant warmth, when the land was carpeted with fields of sun-ripened grain, seafaring was easy, the shortening of Winter and the lengthening of Summer. Climate Change is a key topic of our century; its influence upon our lives is a frequent topic in the media. However, it is presented as an entirely new meteorological phenomenon when identical events have happened at multiple points throughout recorded history, casting a doubt on the modern-day idea that humans are a direct influence on the climate of our planet. The Earth is perpetually enveloped in an ethereal mix of atmospheric compounds which capture sunlight rebounding upwards towards the star ocean upon contact with the Earth. The gaseous blanket captures this reflected heat and causes it to radiate earthbound in a multitude of directions. This cosmic insulation is a woven mix of mainly water vapour, the stratospheric component of greatest abundance contributed by the evaporation of water from the surface of our planets oceans, nitrous oxide, released initially into the air through the rendering of primordial rock involved in the chaotic formation of our planet, and carbon dioxide, naturally contributed to our atmosphere through animal respiration and volcanic eruption. Out all of three of these chemical compounds, it is carbon dioxide that receives intense media focus, political sloganeering, and the sharp tongue of climate change activists. This is due to evidence that the levels of carbon dioxide has been increasingly rapidly since the embrace of the Industrial Age in the early 1800s. Outside of the breath of animals and being expunged from Earth’s innards from fiery volcanoes, carbon dioxide is the principal by-product from using oil, gas and coal as source of energy. These materials are termed ‘fossil fuels’ due to their origin of being the bodies of fallen prehistoric animals and plants rendered through time, pressure and heat to be magicked into substances yielding a great amount of energy upon combustion. They are lit with a match and emit a much greater deal of energy in response; this energy efficiency is what has made them the prime choice as an energy source of humans. When burned, carbon dioxide is emitted in great volumes as a main by-product of this process and this has met the ire of climate change campaigners. This is due to their belief that human action the central cause of the climate changes our planet is currently experiencing. Machines powered through electricity, which is generated through burning fossil fuels to generate steam from great vats of water to turn specialised turbines. This process powers our electronics and if one considers the sheet number of devices, equipment and machines a single person uses in their everyday existence and multiply this by billions of people, the amount of fossil fuel that must be burned to provide this 24/7 supply is monumental, along with the carbon dioxide it produces. This collective increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide as a result of supplying electricity over the decades is said to have ‘thickened’ the Earth’s atmospheric layer, causing greater retention of reflected sunbeams which triggers an increase in Earth’s temperature and thus creates climate change. Despite the narrative around climate change discussion, that ‘man made’ climate change is a statement of fact without opposition, historical documentation is wholly contrary to the conclusion that scientists have unanimously agreed upon. ‘Warm Period’ is the term attributed to epochs in time when civilisations experienced an increase of the temperatures in the world around them and there exists several of them in documented history. The earliest of these eras was during the time of the Ancient Romans, appropriately titled, ‘The Roman Warm Period’. Almost twothousand years in the future, researchers must use a variety of proxy indicators to calculate findings from this distant time in history, notably the growth patterns within mollusc shells and tree rings. These beings possess near-immortality and hasten their growth in favourable conditions, leaving visual markers as indicators of the environment around them during their long life. Indeed, it was concluded that there was an increase in temperature to foster a more favourable environment for such creatures. A second type of evidence would be surviving historical documents from the era under investigation. Successor of Aristotle at the Peripatetic School, the philosopher Theophrastus wrote that date trees were capable of growing in Greece. If true, then it means that Ancient Greece had an almost identical temperature to Greece of the present day, a Greece that is supposedly experiencing a never-before-seen increase in atmospheric temperatures. The next Warm Period would not be until over one thousand years later with the arrival of ‘The Medieval Warm Period.’ The medieval times reported to have experienced a great increase in temperatures during 900AD to 1300AD, with scientists again reconstructing the climate of scaled dragons and chivalrous knights through climate proxies and historical documentation. Tree rings proved that warmer conditions were present and historical documentation was thick with writings of bountiful harvests following the end of seemingly never-ending Summers. There is some division in what the exact temperatures of The Medieval Warm Period were, but it could have even been one or two degrees Celsius warmer than now. Being centuries in the future we will never certainly know, but if this is accurate, then reports from climate activists have proven themselves to be nothing but scaremongering, especially since medieval writers speak of their world being one of agreeable weather and agricultural success. Warmer temperatures also melted much of the Arctic glaciers that had reached down into the North Sea and allowed the conquest of much of Europe by the Vikings. The freed-up waters permitted them easy sea travel and what is missing from the elaborate books of days are reports of a great number of settles submerged beneath rising waters. If both epochs had temperatures comparable to, if not surpassing, those of our world in the present, then it serves as a silver bullet to the manmade climate change argument. These revolve around the issue of our changing climate are centred around the idea that our industrial emissions, notably those as a result of fossil fuel combustion, are to blame for our current predicament. The existence of similar phenomenon in times of history preceding the industrial revolution nullify the power of this perspective. The Ancient Greeks, Romans, and those living in the medieval times had no mechanised productivity that would require the mass burning of coal, gas and oil. Therefore, there is no possibility that carbon dioxide caused the heightened atmospheric temperatures they experienced.
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