Icy Arctic

An article in The Register (UK) summarizes tree-ring research on climate in the arctic. The researchers find that the climate up north was colder than normal during the period 1950-1990. The author of the summary concludes:

The research will be unwelcome in the hard-green movement, as it appears to undermine the direct connection between human carbon emissions and global warming - indicating as it does that temperatures actually fell back to pre-industrial levels from 1950 to 1990, just as human carbon emissions were really getting into high gear. Furthermore, the previous warming trend up to 1950 actually began in 1840, before the industrial revolution had even begun.

"Undermine the direct connection between human carbon emissions and global warming." That's music to my ears.

You can view the original scientific journal's abstract here. It is from Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Vol. 41, No. 4.