<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6e92d754-22bf-40c9-983e-c47ca625f1d3/AF606EB4-D469-4929-93C3-FF23BDFF8C53/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_trees_were_kidding_the_world_was_warmer_just_a_few_centuries_ago/" href="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_trees_were_kidding_the_world_was_warmer_just_a_few_centuries_ago/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.news.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_trees_were_kidding_the_world_was_warmer_just_a_few_centuries_ago/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.news.com.au/img/A99E7BED-3792-4C4B-ABE4-5B5ED0EFA736" alt="image" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_trees_were_kidding_the_world_was_warmer_just_a_few_centuries_ago/">Mann’s <A title="manipulation of the statistics has since been discredited" href="http://www.whackynation.com/?page_id=58">manipulation of the statistics has since been discredited</A>, and the graph dropped out of the IPCC’s fourth report. But the damage has been done. Millions of people now firmly believe the world hasn’t been this hot in recorded history, not even during the Medieval Warm Period</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_trees_were_kidding_the_world_was_warmer_just_a_few_centuries_ago/"><P> Ecological modeller<A title=" Dr Craig Loehle " href="http://www.eoearth.org/contributor/craig.loehle"> Dr Craig Loehle </A>has checked other proxy data, rather than the tree rings he says are unreliable, and comes up with a very different graphic indeed: </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_trees_were_kidding_the_world_was_warmer_just_a_few_centuries_ago/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.news.com.au/img/89A685BE-11DD-4703-8296-D6CBCC654D84" alt="image" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_trees_were_kidding_the_world_was_warmer_just_a_few_centuries_ago/">eighteen 2000-year-long series were obtained that were not based on tree ring data</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_trees_were_kidding_the_world_was_warmer_just_a_few_centuries_ago/">The mean time series shows quite coherent structure. The mean series shows the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and Little Ice Age (LIA) quite clearly, with <A title="the MWP being approximately 0.3°C warmer than 20th century " href="http://www.ncasi.org/publications/Detail.aspx?id=3025">the MWP being approximately 0.3°C warmer than 20th century </A>values at these eighteen sites</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_trees_were_kidding_the_world_was_warmer_just_a_few_centuries_ago/">This warming is not unusual. The planet was warmer less than 1000 years ago.  Oh, and see the fall in temperatures since 1998’s high, which so panicked so many people</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AF606EB4-D469-4929-93C3-FF23BDFF8C53/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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