To: Wharf Rat who wrote (946850 ) 7/13/2016 7:17:51 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to Here's a 4th study today on this thread which indicates your Chicken Little "extreme weather" meme is BS: Study Shows Climate Extremes In Northern Germany Nothing New … Much Worst in The Past P Gosselin Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne A new study by German GFZ research institute finds that extreme climate change also happened in the past before humans began emitting CO2 in to the atmosphere. What follows is the press release (emphasis added ).The lake level of the Großer Fürstenseer See in Neustrelitz (Mueritz National Park) fluctuated by a total of 8 meters in the past 10,000 years (photo: E. Dietze, GFZ). there were much more drastic changes in lake levels occurring over the past thousands of years , especially before humans started to have an impact on the water cycle.shows ups and downs in lake level of about four meters in either direction over the past 10,000 years. To compare: Since the 1980s the lake level lowered for about 1.30 meters. “In only a few millenia the lake area dropped by half or was threefold increased compared to todays extent”, explains first author of the study Dr. Elisabeth Dietze from the GFZ. Their reconstructions of the lake level showed that a peak was reached about 5,000 years ago with a lake level of four meters above todays level . In contrast, about 6,400 to 9,700 years ago the lake level was about three to four meters lower than today .combination of climate change and changes in forest structure the scientists suggest. The early Holocene pine forests (the first forests after the ice age) had a high demand in water with a negative impact on groundwater recharge. In contrast subsequent deciduous forests contributed to groundwater recharge, e.g. by an increased trunk flow. This is also true for today, the GFZ hydrologists indicated. Because of a more humid middle and late Holocene the lake levels remained relatively high throughout the past 4,000 years. They were only impacted by humans since medieval times. Analyses of instrumental investigations from the region of the past 40 to 60 years indicate variations in climate as the main driving force: Precipitation deficits cause local lowering of groundwater tables. However, there are also significant correlations with forest structure, a study from 2012 by colleagues from the Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (Müncheberg) showed. Implications for the future are that more severe variations in lake level than detected so far can be expected. These will however not only be forced by climate change but also by future forest structure in the national park.The new results show that changes in regional water cycle can be quite massive if one considers not only hundred but 10,000 years”, Ingo Heinrich says . He coordinates the regional observatory “TERrestrial ENvironmental Observatories – Northern German Lowland” (TERENO Nord-Ost). This platform was initiated to investigate local changes in water cycles and to better understand the impact of global change on regional scale.doi: 10.1111/bor.12190 >>More information on ICLEA Permalink Reply http://notrickszone.com/2014/07/02/spiegel-europes-gigantic-catastrophe-happened-in-1540-when-co2-was-30-less-than-today/#sthash.TgaIi2Br.dpbs http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/3264 Permalink Reply http://notrickszone.com/2016/07/13/study-shows-climate-extremes-in-northern-germany-nothing-new-much-worst-in-the-past/#sthash.wfp844FE.dpuf
