Climate change: He had never so harmless sprouting flowers, the birds are singing, beer gardens open in January. And already being discussed in media and politics of the man-made climate change, including its possible consequences, which should only be disastrous. At the same time the illusion of a natural, "good" climate is fostered in which we were spared all the storms, floods and heat waves. A look back into the climate history, only the last 1000 years shows that the alleged man-made climate change to date was very harmless. And who knows, maybe even some natural climate variation for the benefit humanity has smoothed.
statement, a view long since past weather that would come to be regarded as an extreme weather. Terms such as "extreme weather" and even "climate change" say is rather something about the people who use manipulative, as on weather and weather itself, because the climate historically go quickly out of superlatives to describe what the natural, So "good" weather and climate change is normal. The spring of 1268
marked by a prolonged Trockenheit.Colmar: in the area between 3 March 17th July a 12-week sustained drought and heat, which seems to be no negative impact on fruit production had, for it was a good harvest.
1270Oberrhein and Danube: In July floods. Otherwise, the summer was at least in southern Germany, warm and dry, which niederschlug.Friesland also in a very good wine: lots of rain and bad harvest.
1271Niederschlagsreiches year with a wet summer when it came to disease and famine, and was created by a flood of Dollard. Due to the continuing wet conditions, the grapes rotted on the vines.
1272Am 22nd February began with the field work. Then it rained from 12 Almost seven weeks in March and on. The harvest in the fall and was ill-advised, the mortality increased. It rained continually, which finally led to flooding.
1274Bis into the summer kalt.Basel: After a storm on 3 July, it rained continuously until 1 August. After that, a prolonged high-pressure situation with continued good weather and heat through, and finally, there was again a rich harvest. Very warm winter.
1279Prag and Colmar: the very warm winter. It is said to have frozen at night, daytime it thawed again.
1283Warmer Winter.Sindelfingen: Frost destroyed on 20 May, the vineyards. However, the spring was generally very warm, so that the vegetation rose sufficiently early. So it goes
through the decades until in the years 1315 - 1317 was due to bad weather to severe famine.
Climatic Other changes were a plague that devastated the West. A favorable climate had supported the development of Europe in its heyday, so adversely impacted now from the deteriorating conditions on the economy. The mean temperature dropped, and the rains were frequent. The famines that plague our days in certain African regions, can be traced back to similar climate change. For three years, from 1315 1317, Europe was subjected to from Scotland to Italy, from the Pyrenees to the Russian plains terrible climatic conditions. Through it was in Europe until the Renaissance, more than one hundred and fifty Years, caused lasting economic depression. Since not all regions in Europe were equally affected, were able to signs of decline, the people at that time remain hidden for some time. But in the 14th Century they were no longer be ignored.
In Europe, as it were, it had been no major famines more. Although such testimony for the years 1125 and 1197, but they do not cover the entire continent. In France of the 13th Century is the only recorded famine in 1235 in Aquitaine. After all, if a grain harvests were rather meager, so the time was to bridge until the next harvest is often difficult. The famine of the years 1315 to 1317, however, reached proportions the whole of Europe met heavy. In the summer of 1314 torrential rains the fields of the north-western levels set under water. Thus, the cereal and other food prices rose suddenly. On 21 January 1315 saw the king by the growing inflation forced to introduce a monitoring of the livestock and poultry prices. But officials responsible for setting maximum prices and their compliance with royal officials were powerless, and the bull market ignored the orders of the king.
mid-April 1315 were the rains in France and 11 May, in England more violent than the previous year. All summer, all through the autumn of 1315 it rained. The crops were completely destroyed. The French army was a result of this deluge literally stuck in the mud of the Netherlands and was prevented by the invasion of Flanders. Who was not on the battlefield death, died the next year from hunger or perished in one of the malnutrition caused by the disease. Between 1 May and 1 September 1316 2,600 people died in Ypres, 10% of the population. Usually there were 15-16 deaths a week, but then up to 190th Only Bruges, at the time, a port city, it was successful in reducing the death rate to 5.5% of the population by a very short time grain could be imported.
The Abbot of Saint-Martin in Tournai describes in his Chronicle of the famine in Flanders, the then prevailing misery: "As a result of the falling rain in torrents and as the crops under very poor conditions had to be harvested, were destroyed in some places even created a shortage of grain and salt ... the people were weakened, infirmity multiplied ... so many people died every day ... that the air was poisoned ... downright poor beggar died in large numbers on the streets, on the dung heap ... "
It seems appropriate for us, here are some economic historians of information calculated to lead to them after examination of the annual yield of seedlings of the years 1209 to 1350 at fifty Goods of the diocese of Winchester determined. The yield was 3.83 times the average per year of sowing. This value decreases by 35.7 7% in 1315 to 2.47, 1316 by 44.91% to 2.11. Despite a slight improvement in the value of 1317 is still below average, ie by 13.05%. Only in 1318, income improved substantially once again. It exceeds the average by 32.38% to reach 5.07. The famine came to an end and Europe slowly recovered wieder.Bei extreme weather fluctuations in the flow of the seasons, the bailiffs used to their observations about the climate in the Gutsbüchem noted.
These findings explain the terrible things that are in different countries happening. "In Ireland, the misery continued until 1318 and was extremely cruel. The starving people were digging in the cemeteries of the bodies. Parents ate their children ... In the Slavic countries like Poland and Silesia, continued famine and epidemics to the year in 1319, and there were several cases of cannibalism ... parents killed their children, children their parents. They got her full of greed over the bodies of the hanged. " [Gimpel, p. 208-212] [5:11:04]
Weather-related famines in Europe were a constant threat. Only remembered today not remember that 1708/1709 Europe was hit by a very severe winter. In Paris, the temperature dropped to -26 Degrees Celsius and was the cause of the next famine.
course, the current climate debate is based on the assumption it would be much more extreme. The climate history shows, however, that the allegedly been strongly influenced by human world climate is still very moved within natural ranges of variation that are not seen as a threat must Arion, despite their disastrous effects. That is not at all
climate variability itself is viewed as a problem, but the human influence, which is primarily a Western, especially the United States.
The current debate over climate change is influenced by the scientifically untenable assumption that a climate to which the man has no influence takes would be better, less katastrophenarm, as natural climate variations.
In describing the disaster scenarios of the effects of climate change at length the cost of the RAID are listed. But not the benefit to humanity because of the use made of fossil fuel over. Without the use of fossil fuels, mankind with over 6.5 billion would be no more of feeding, our standard of living almost pre-industrial low and the natural climate extremes we were not yet saved.
without showing adequate alternative for energy remains of humanity little choice than to continue vigorously to burn oil and coal. When stocks are exhausted in a few decades, humanity will continue to count on 10 billion. Then it is really a disaster, even without climate change.
PS Another example of "good" natural environment is the "little ice age
" that of 1350 - lasted 1850th
