5/4/3/2/1 NOTES #7

5)*"Between 6500 and 3500 B.C., the temperature increased from 58º to 62º F. This is the warmest the Earth has been during the Holocene, which is why the scientists refer to this period as the Holocene Maximum".

*Because of the reason that those temperatures of the Holocene Maximum are very close to the temperatures that scientists have predict to 2100, they say that it would be good because at the time of the Holocene Maximum, the agricultural revolution began in the Middle East. Therefore, the same might happen by the new temperature increasing.

*Between 900 and 1100 the climate dramatically warmed after the dropping of temperature, which reached today's temperature. This is known as the Medieval Warm Period (temperature rose about 1º F).

*The graphs shown on page number 79 show a really good support to John Carlisle's opinion about global warming being provoked by Earth's fluctuations.

*"By 1650, the temperature hit a low of 57º F. This is regarded as the coldest point in the 10,000 year Holocene geological epoch. It is known as the Little Ice Age.

4) *How do we know which theory do we have to follow if there are many?

*What type of invents do the scientists use to predict the temperature of 2100?

*How does a rise of 1º F affect the Earth in a big way?

*Did this climate during the Little Ice Age affect the colonization in the Americas?

3) *Plunge: force.

*Trend: inclination.

*Bountiful: abundant.

*Fickle: inconsistent.

2) *Allusion: graphs on page number 79 are provided by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). The author makes a reference to IPCC.

*Historical Event: the Little Ice Age is something considered the most important fact to many of the scientists of today.
1) After the first knowledge of the changing temperatures that John Carlisle gave us, now his theory makes more sense for us, the readers, because with all these proves such as the Little Ice Age and the Agricultural Revolution. His theory has enough facts that "could" make it a real fact or maybe later in time it could become just that, another theory.