Long-term instrumental and reconstructed temperature records contradict anthropogenic global warming

Energy and Environment

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 723-745

  Lüdecke, Horst Joachim ^a  

^a EIKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

northern hemispheric 100 year temperature fluctuations; persistence of temperature records; proxy temperatures from stalagmites and tree rings; solar influence

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PLANT EXTRACTS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

19TH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING; DETRENDED FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS; FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS; FORCINGS; HURST EXPONENTS; LOW FREQUENCY FLUCTUATIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PERSISTENCE OF TEMPERATURE RECORDS; PROXY TEMPERATURES FROM STALAGMITES AND TREE RINGS; SOLAR INFLUENCE; SUNSPOT NUMBER; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION; TREE RINGS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; GLOBAL WARMING; MAGNETIC FIELD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; STALAGMITE; SUNSPOT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

AUSTRIA; INNSBRUCK; TYROL;

EID: 80052832322     PISSN: 0958305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/0958-305X.22.6.732     Document Type: Article

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