Louis Hissink's weekly science roundup is mostly about Greenie issues this week. He starts out with some good laughs about the scientific illiteracy of the latest "Arctic melting" scare. I had my laughs about it on 3rd (below). He adds this interesting comment about the Arctic, though:

"It might be interesting to look at a recent world map drawn by the Chinese in the late 14th Century (or early 15th). It is the Di Virga Map recently discovered by the team at 1421 which clearly shows the northern coastline of Siberia from Norway to the Bering Straights. It is a map compiled before any of the European maritime Nations started discovering the world, so one is immediately intrigued by the fact that in order to map this northern Siberian coast, ships must have add easy access to that coast. This suggests that perhaps the Arctic ice cover was far less than what it is now."

So there was a been a big Arctic melting hundreds of years ago, long before industrialization -- suggesting that any current changes are natural too. Louis has lots more, including of course, a debunking of the egregious BBC .....

I will post no more today as Louis has enough fun information for us both. Go read....

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Many people would like to be kind to others so Leftists exploit that with their nonsense about equality. Most people want a clean, green environment so Greenies exploit that by inventing all sorts of far-fetched threats to the environment. But for both, the real motive is to promote themselves as wiser and better than everyone else, truth regardless.

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