An article over at The Register (here) caught my eye a couple of days ago. It relates to some investigations carried out on logbooks from ships in the 1730s, and mentions the fact that there is “consistent language” and “European shore-based records” that indicate that global warming was taking place then.

Now far be it from me to state that global warming is a complete myth and that we should all run out and start ramping up our carbon production again, but I have said for a long time that I don’t believe that changes in the global climate can be completely attributed to the actions of people. Some of it has to be natural climatic shifts. Undoubtedly the amount of carbon that we now produce does not help the situation, but it isn’t the only reason that things are changing (if the climate never changed by itself how does the planet ever recover from Ice Ages?

Anyway, pop over to The Register and have a read, and then let me  know what you think…