Climate Change over the Last Thousand Years and the Next Hundred

Gerald North

Gerald North
Distinguished Professor, Physical Section, Department of Atmospheric Sciences and the Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University

A variety of evidence points to a gradual cooling of the planet from about 1000 AD to a few hundred years ago when it bottomed out. Over the last one hundred and fifty years the planet has been warming at an unusual if not unprecedented rate. The published evidence caused a groundswell of activity among climate change skeptics culminating in congressional hearings featuring battling assessments. A cadre of skeptics continues to joust at the consensus of scientific assessment that the climate is warming and that its cause is anthropogenic. Climate will continue its course of warming over this century modulated by our choices and the political will to curb greenhouse gases.

Gerald North