The deep fall from Warming Europe to the Ice Age
Thesis
The pre WW II years were the warmest since the 16th
century. A big warming period, during the 1920s and 1930s ended in
winter 1939/40. After only four war months, the first war winter was
the coldest winter in 100 years in Northern Europe. This ending came
with an extraordinary suddenness. The change was so dramatic that a
natural cause can be excluded with high certainty. Nothing serious had
happened around the globe during 1939 except that WW II had started on
September 1st 1939. The climatic shift to extreme winter conditions was
caused by the war at sea in the North and Baltic Sea.
Facts
A global warming had started around the 1880s. When
the 1910-20 decade ended, the warming accelerated in the northern
hemisphere, temporarily at some locations, but lasting for two decades
in Europe. Scientists of that time spoke of the ‘Warming of Europe’.
The 1930s decade was recorded as the warmest observed. The weather
conditions were normal in every respect. Neither the sun, nor orbiting
meteorites nor volcanic activities disturbed the course of climate.
In autumn 1939 1,000 naval vessels went out to the sea
on combat missions; several thousand airplanes flew out to bomb enemy
vessels, many ten thousands of sea mines were laid in the North Sea and
Baltic Sea. The seas were stirred and shaken. They blocked Europe off
from maritime influence and paved the way for continental conditions.
Two significant events on the verges of European continent remained
sidelined, the December 1939 invasion of Finland by Russia, and the
earthquake on December 27th in Turkey.
In early January 1940 Northern Europe found itself
back to weather conditions not experienced in Europe since the ‘Little
Ice Age’ more than 100 years earlier. After the extreme cold spell in
January came an unusual second extremely cold spell in February.
Evidence
The link between the temperature decrease in winter
1939/40 and the war activities is obvious because:
- The temperature difference to previous winters is
of such magnitude that a connection to the war activities is given by
time and location.
- There is no other explanation for the sudden shift
in climatic conditions than the war at sea.
- The second severe cold spell in February 1940
proves that the Europe’s northern seas were deprived of summer-stored
heat too early by the war machinery ploughing the seas during the
autumn months in 1939.
Conclusion and further reading
The sudden stopping of the general warming trend since
the 1880s and the accelerated warming of Europe from about 1920 to 1939
can only be explained by the war at sea that started only few months
earlier in September 1939. Winter 1939_40 (2_11),
Lost West Drift (2_12), and Sea war
events (2_13), and Russia-Finnish war (2_41), and Turkey quake December 27th (2_51).
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