Said who?
NOAA? It did not exist back then.
Was this 'worst drought' scientifically measured nationwide and, if so, by whom?
Or was it just a popular belief based on nothing but hearsay.
You'll find that today's measurement of climate related issues is way better than during the time of the Pilgrim Fathers.
History that far back isn't always exact but there is much written about the pilgrims land at a time of drought that lasted 12 weeks
Since man made GW didn't exist then, it says nothing about climate change It was weather.
So we know about the drought in new England in 1623 but we know nothing about the rest of the world at that time
That having said, there are still reasons to think that no one can really stop the continued warming of the world. Not even the Kyoto Protocol – an already massive initiative, to say the least, taken by humanity to address the problem – dares to dream of averting the rise of world temperatures all together. As indeed, our optimum technologies nowadays have yet to frame adequate solutions to curb the rate of global warming. If this perceived helplessness in respect to global warming speaks of anything about our present situation, it merely proves that there is more into the problem than merely attributing it to human doing. This is because if global warming is really a problem constituted by human fault, then it is with human initiatives that such problem can and must be remedied. Apparently however, human progress cannot be blamed for the recent rising trends of global temperatures.
Global Warming as the Earth's Natural Way of Being
Hey Big Syph: Your “Since man made GW didn't exist then, it says nothing about climate change It was weather.”
According to this chappie, there was man made global warming 5000 years ago.
Farming And Forest Destruction Prevented Ice Age 5000 Years Ago
In a paper published in the scientific journal Climate Change Dr. William Ruddiman argues that humanity prevented an ice age that would otherwise have begun about 4,000 or 5,000 years ago.
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/001...
In America, they have refered to that era as the mideval drought period. The Anastazi Indians had to relocate during this time, as may have others on the continent.
EDIT: Had the dates wrong. http://www.ehow.com/about_5373418_anasaz...
Here is a very breif mention of it reprinted in a newspaper article. http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/...
If I take a offered point of view from one Alarmist. it can't be AGW . That's a confession of ignorance. Either they are stating man didn't exist, or they didn't have any environmental influence....
Wish I could live in Alarmist LA LA land. Droughts have been linked to cycles, bonded events, and minimal human influence pre and post (lag). All are regional conditions, not global.
Since NOAA was not around at that time, I am confident that the temperature records 800 years ago were not manipulated.
Why
Pilgrim Fathers landed in America during worst drought for 800 years?
Has there been a drought as bad since?
What does this say about Climate Change?
Was this due to the Medieval Warm Period?
