Spitsbergen warming 1918 has a source
Thesis
A sudden increase in global warming does not come ‘out
of the blue’. The closer the region or location has been identified
where the warming started and was presumably maintained, the closer one
gets to identify the source. Once the time and place have been located,
it might come to the point when inevitably the cause must be
identified. Respectively, a shift in the burden of proof occurs. Those
who claim ‘general natural variation’ should proof their claim. The
sudden big warming at Spitsbergen 1918 is such a case.
Facts
It is a widely acknowledged fact that the global
warming accelerated during the 1920s and 1930s. It is not disputed that
the warming occurred ‘in or close’ to the Arctic region. The Norwegian
scientist B. J. Birkeland established in 1930 that the air temperatures
at Spitsbergen suddenly deviated so much from average means that he
concluded: ‘these high figures are probably the greatest yet known on
earth’. This investigation confirms that the warming actually occurred
to a very pronounced extent at Spitsbergen, and establishes very
exactly the time range: from summer 1918 to January 1919.
The winter air temperatures at Spitsbergen changed
within a year’s time by +8°C. There was no volcano, no earthquake,
no tsunami, and no meteorite, on any noticeable scale. There was only a
devastation sea war waged just about 2000 kilometres south of
Spitsbergen. The war at sea reached its most destructive phase in
1917/18 only few months before the Big Warming at Spitsbergen occurred.
Alone in 1917 German U-boats sunk about 4,000 vessels
with a capacity of six million tons; several hundred naval vessels were
sent to the sea bottom; more than 100,000 sea mines were laid; 1,000
mine sweepers were in permanent operation; submarines were depth
charged many thousand times; and naval vessels were shelling each other
numerous times. One war at sea years alone represents already a mighty
force, able to turn huge sea areas ‘up-side-down’. The war at sea
during WWI is the most likely cause that changed the Northern
Hemisphere climate for two decades.
Evidence
As the big warming at Spitsbergen must have been due
to a major shift in the ocean waters close to the island, the only
available, sufficient and closely related cause is the war at sea in
Western European waters.
Conclusion and further reading
The highly probable causation of Spitsbergen’s warming
becomes even more evident by the proof that the war at sea caused harsh
war winters during WW I, and WW II, and that also the four decade
global cooling from 1940 to the end of the 1970s was presumably
initiated by naval combats and activities all over the North Atlantic
and Pacific for several years. Spitsbergen heats up (5_12), and War at sea 1914-18 (5_13), and Sea mines 1914-18 (5_14), and Winter 1939-40 (2_11).
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