I said I wouldn't post again on this thread but there was something nagging away and now I've got to the bottom of it. Much of what Forfi presents seems to be lifted verbatim from briefing documents released on
CO2 Science
This organisation states in the one on the Little Ice Age in China:
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In an attempt to rewrite climatic history, certain scientists have claimed that the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period were neither global in extent nor strong enough where they did occur to have a discernable influence on mean global air temperature. By doing so, they have made the putative dramatic warming of the latter part of the 20th century appear highly unusual, which they equate with anthropogenic-induced, which they associate with the historical rise in the air's CO2 content, which gives them a pretense to call for huge reductions in the use of fossil fuels, which we believe to be unwarranted. Hence, we continually search the emerging scientific literature for evidence that the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period were truly significant global events. This summary reports what we have learned over the past few years about the Little Ice Age in China.
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Searching for evidence to support your view is fine but to do so
and to disregard conflicting evidence is not scientific. Perhaps not suprising given the apparent fact that the organisation is according to Greenpeace a front for Exxon through the Western Fuels Association.
ExxonSecrets Factsheet: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
Maybe Enron funds windmills but the oil companies seem to be funding Forfi's sources of information. Hardly unbiased scientific information then.