Is there any reason to believe that the current warming is a continuation of the recovery from the Little Ice Age?

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I would be interested to see any evidence to support the idea that the current warming is a recovery from the LIA.  Looking at the instrumental record, temps were fairly flat in the second half of the 19th century and early 20th, so isn't it likely that any recovery was over by then?

http://woodfortrees.org/graph/hadcrut4gl/mean:12/plot/hadcrut4gl/to:1930.5/trend

Also, if the current warming is not due principally to increasing GHG's, then what IS it due to?

Or is increasing GHG's the best; indeed the only reasonable explanation?

Ender772 · Accepted Answer

Thats what opponents of global warming say...its just the earths natural cycle....but what if its not.  can we take that risk?

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Where is it warming? Global Cooling has started and intensifying. People in India are dying from the cold weather. It was snowing in Egypt and Turkey.

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it is not, just a denier talking point

Anonymous · Answer

No, it's about 10 times faster than that

Anonymous · Answer

all climate research based on the work at the climatic research unit at the university of east anglia in norfolk england has been proven to be fake , recently the so called highest ever temperature was recorded at cambridge university at a monitoring station there , what isn't shown in the photos is that the monitoring station is surrounded by huge concrete and glass buildings, similarly there is a station at london airport which is close to several million tons of concrete which acts as a heat sink this is one tactic used by the climate change fanatics, many monitoring stations have been moved closer to or into cities

Is there any reason to believe that the current warming is a continuation of the recovery from the Little Ice Age?

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