Finally, someone who realizes that we are coming out of a time of glaciation and that the warming is a natural thing - from New Scientist:
World’s longest lake is being depleted of life as waters warm
Loss of biodiversity in Lake Tanganyika, Africa’s oldest and deepest lake, has been driven by 500 years of sustained climate warming, a study of core sediments has found.
This has led to a decline in the abundance of the lake’s fish that pre-dates commercial fisheries.
We have known that the warming climate is transforming lakes worldwide, but a lack of consistent climate and fishery data from the tropics has meant that little was known about how lakes in the region were affected.
So Andy Cohen at the University of Arizona in Tucson and colleagues analysed sediment cores from Lake Tanganyika in East Africa to study proxies of temperature, algal production and abundance of fish fossils over the past 1500 years.
Emphasis mine - finally, the truth comes out. We have periods of 30 to 100 years where there may be perturbations to the climate (Maunder and Dalton minima, the thirty-year spike in warming in the 1970's) but overall, we have been warming at a constant rate for a long long time - predates our industrial revolution.
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