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CAPTAIN Cook and Lord Nelson seem unlikely figureheads in the fight against climate change alarmists. The two heroes have been dead for more than 200 years.

But their ships’ logs, and thousands more like them, have revealed that recent global warming is not so unusual after all.

The new evidence was uncovered by the UK Meteorological Office and other experts, The Sun newspaper reports.

They scoured more than 6,000 Royal Navy logs dating from the 1600s.

Maritime historian Dr Sam Willis says: “Ships’ officers recorded air pressure, wind strength, air and sea temperatures and other weather conditions.

“From these records, scientists can build a detailed picture of past weather and climate.”

The findings are startling. They show we went through a similar period of global warming in the 1730s that couldnot have been man-made.And freak storms like the ones experienced recently also occurred in the 1680s and 1690s.They were the coldest decades in what is known as the Little Ice Age- so could not have been caused by global warming.

Many doom-mongers have pointed to freakish patterns in modern hurricanes as more “evidence” of the effects of man’s environmental damage.

Hurricanes that form in the eastern Atlantic normally track westwards.

So weathermen were shocked in 2005 when Hurricane Vince headed north east and hit Spain and Portugal.

But we now know exactly the same thing happened with a hurricane in 1842, thanks to logs left by our seafaring ancestors.

Cook mapped much of the Pacific before he was killed in Hawaii in a clash with the natives in 1779.
Nelson, who maintained his ships’ logs himself, covered the Arctic, West Indies, south east Asia and Mediterranean before his death at the Battle Of Trafalgar off the coast of Spain in 1805.

Other valuable records include those of the East India Company, which controlled much of the trade between Britain and Asia with its ships.

Evidence from the many logs, which are still being studied, will be published in respected science journal Climatic Change.

Geographer Dr Dennis Wheeler, of Sunderland University, said: “British archives contain more than 100,000 Royal Navy logbooks from around 1670 to 1850 alone. They are a stunning resource.

“Global warming is a reality, but our data show climate science is complex. It is wrong to take particular events and link them to carbon dioxide emissions.

“These records will give us a much clearer picture of what is really happening.”
 
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