This new paper uses a rather unique proxy; high-resolution samples micromilled from archaeological shells of the European limpet, Patella vulgata. Mr. Limpet would be proud. A paper published this week…
Tag: Medieval Warm Period
Linking the ENSO and PDO induced rainfall of the Pacific Northwest to proxy data in tree rings and lake sediments
From Penn State , another Mann paper with proxy sets, and a divergence problem. At least they are talking about the MWP, or as they call it, the Medieval Climate…
HH Lamb–“Climate: Present, Past & Future–Vol 2”–In Review–Part I
Guest post by Paul Homewood (reposted from his blog Not a lot of people know that please visit and bookmark) Part 1 of a three part series. Hubert Lamb was…
Mann's 'hockey stick' claims of the MWP and LIA being local were refuted years before it was published
Pierre Gosselin at NoTricksZone reports: Geologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt found a Japanese tree-ring temperature reconstruction from 1995, one that should have been heeded by the IPCC and Michael…
The longest, most high resolution, most inconvenient paleoclimate data that hasn't been published
Read on for a new Josh cartoon. What’s wrong with this image? Well if you are part of The Team (RealClimate and friends), it goes against everything you’ve been publishing.…
The sum of Yamal is greater than its parts
This post will be a sticky top post for a day or two, new stories will appear below this one. Climategate Continues By Andrew Montford & Harold Ambler May 24,…
Megafire study suggests today’s megafires, at least in the southwestern U.S., are atypical
From SMU (Southern Methodist University) comes this press release which really isn’t surprising. North America didn’t have a forest fire suppression program for the last 1400 years, so there wasn’t…
More solar linkages to climate variations
From Pierre Gosselin’s No Tricks Zone: Oases of the Chinese Taklamakan Desert Greened Up In Sync With Solar Millenial Cycles by Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt The Taklamakan Desert is…
Pat Michaels – on the death of credibility in the journal Nature
Atmospheric Aerosols and the Death of Nature Guest post by Dr. Patrick Michaels Big news last week was that new findings published in Nature magazine showed that human emissions of…
Proof that "climate disruption" is found all the way back to pre-industrial times
A new paper in Quaternary Science Reviews titled: Combined dendro-documentary evidence of Central European hydroclimatic springtime extremes over the last millennium …demonstrates that there is evidence for extreme weather during…
Yes, I know, I covered it first: The Medieval Warm Period was Global
I must have had 20 tips and notes/contacts over the past 24 hours like this one: New temperature proxy discovered An article (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2120512/Global-warming-Earth-heated-medieval-times-human-CO2-emissions.html) in the Mail Online describes a paper…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup
Quote of the Week: “I am always happy to be in the minority. Concerning the climate models, I know enough of the details to be sure that they are unreliable.…
More evidence the Medieval Warm Period was global
UPDATE: 3/30/12 Since a number of commenters that are getting bent out of shape over the issue can’t apparently be bothered to read the paper, and since the authors at…
Scafetta's new paper attempts to link climate cycles to planetary motion
Nicola Scafetta sent me this paper yesterday, and I read it with interest, but I have a number of reservations about it, not the least of which is that it…
Why William D. Nordhaus Is Wrong About Global Warming Skeptics Being Wrong…
Guest post by David Middleton William D. Nordhaus is an economics professor at Yale University. He recently published this essay in the New York Review of Books… Why the Global…
Ancient Iraqi meteorologists speak to the present on climate
From Wiley-Blackwell via Eurekalert Ancient Arabic writings help scientists piece together past climate Iraqi sources from 9th and 10th centuries give new meteorological insights – The team believes the sources…
Monckton responds to Skeptical Science
Cooking the books By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Mr. John Cook, who runs a website puzzlingly entitled Skeptical Science” (for he is not in the least sceptical of the “official”…
The Message in the Dye 3 Data
Guest post by David Archibald The story so far: in this recent post – Ap Index Neutrons and Climate, we had looked at the Dye 3 oxygen isotope-derived temperature record…
In China, there are no hockey sticks
Reposted from Jo Nova’s site Chinese 2485 year tree ring study shows shows sun or ocean controls climate, temps will cool til 2068 A blockbuster Chinese study of Tibetan Tree…
New study shows temperature in Greenland significantly warmer than present several times in the last 4000 years
Kobashi et al 2011 was just published in GRL, and it looks like it will be upsetting the paleoclimate apple cart. The conclusions of Kaufman et al 2009 look to…
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