Total Pageviews

Monday, March 25, 2019

The Arctic was significantly warmer in 1930

And CO2 
greenhouse warming 
can not be the cause !


Araźny et al., 2019

"A comparison of 
bioclimatic conditions on
Franz Josef Land (the Arctic) 
between the turn of the 19th 
to 20th century and present day"

“Air temperature in 1899–1914 
during three expeditions 
was 1.8–4.6 °C lower than 
the modern period in winter 
(Oct–Apr). 

However, during the 1930/31 
expedition it was 4.6 °C warmer 
than the years 1981–2010. 

Our results relate to what 
has been called 
the ‘1930s warming’, 
referred to by various authors 
in the literature as the ETCW 
or the ETCAW.”

In individual months, the highest 
negative anomalies were identified 
in Calm Bay (hereafter CB) 
in January 1914 (−7.4 °C) 
and in February 1900 (−6.8 °C). 

In contrast, 
during the 1930/31 
expedition, it was 
4.6 °C warmer 
than the present day
 in CB [Calm Bay]. 

Such a high 
thermal anomaly 
was influenced by 
a warm autumn 
and winter, especially 
February 1931, 
when the average 
monthly temperature 
was 10.7 °C higher than 
in the modern period.”

“In approximately 
the last 140 years, 
there have been 
two periods 
of significant 
temperature 
increases 
in the Arctic. 

The first began in 
around 1918–1920 
and lasted until 1938 
and has been called 
the ‘1930s warming’ 
(Bengtsson et al. 2004). 

Other works 
have referred to 
this period as the 
‘Early Twentieth 
Century Warming’ 
(ETCW, Brönnimann 2009) 
or the 
‘Early Twentieth Century 
Arctic Warming’ 
(ETCAW, Wegmann et al. 2017, 2018). 

Our results confirm the observations 
for the last expedition from the 
historical study period in 1930/1931. 

These years covered 
the warmest part of the ETCW.  

In turn, the second increased warming 
of the Arctic began around 1980 
(Johannessen et al. 2004),
or according to Przybylak (2007) 
in about the mid-1990s. 

Changes in overall atmospheric 
circulation have long been believed 
to have been the cause of the ETCW 
(e.g. Scherhag 1937). 

As the modern climate warming 
(since 1975) has progressed 
in a largely similar manner 
to the progression of the ETCW 
(Wood and Overland 2010; 
Semenov and Latif 2012), 
there has been renewed interest 
in the insufficiently well-explained 
causes of the ETCW using 
the latest research methods, 
including, primarily, climate models. 

An analysis 
of the literature 
shows that 
the cause 
of such a 
significant warming 
in the present period 
is still not clear. 

There is even controversy 
over whether the main factors 
in the process are natural 
or anthropogenic, 
although the decided majority 
of researchers assign 
a greater role to natural factors 
(Bengtsson et al. 2004; 
Semenov and Latif 2012). 

It would appear that the 
greatest differences of opinion 
on the causes of the ETCW 
are to be found in works 
presenting climate models 
(see, e.g. Shiogama et al. 2006; 
Suo et al. 2013), which is 
an excellent illustration 
of the still-insufficient knowledge 
of the mechanisms governing 
the Arctic Climate System.”