Tracy P. Hamilton wrote:
wrote:
Roger Coppock wrote:
EARTH'S TEMPERATURE AT 12,000-YEAR HIGH!!!!
EARTH'S TEMPERATURE AT HOLOCENE MAXIMUM!!!!
EARTH'S TEMPERATURE WITHIN 1K OF 1,000,000-YEAR
MAXIMUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Strong El Nin~os to become permanent El Nin~o!!!!!!!!!!!

AP article
http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/06/...5global001.cfm

The actual article in PNAS currently free to the public.
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/0606291103v1

[Note the highly unusual inclusion of political references in
this scientific paper. I haven't exhaustively surveyed the
history of PNAS, but l doubt the the reviewers at PNAS would
have allowed this before. Science has taken the gloves off!]

Global surface temperature has increased


I find it amusing that these "scientists" show a 1.3 million year proxy

temperature graph and end the last 8th of the graph with a 135 year
actual temperature reading.

"The paleoclimate SST, based on Mg content of foraminifera
shells, provides accuracy to
1°C (29). Thus we cannot be sure that
we have precisely aligned the paleo and modern temperature scales.
Accepting paleo and modern temperatures at face value implies a
WEP 1870 SST in the middle of its Holocene range. Shifting the
scale to align the 1870 SST with the lowest Holocene value raises
the paleo curve by
0.5°C. Even in that case, the 2001-2005 WEP
SST is at least as great as any Holocene proxy temperature at that
location. Coarse temporal resolution of the Holocene data,
1,000
years, may mask brief warmer excursions, but cores with higher
resolution (29) suggest that peak Holocene WEP SSTs were not
more than
1°C warmer than in the late Holocene, before modern
warming. It seems safe to assume that the SST will not decline this
century, given continued increases of GHGs, so in a practical sense
the WEP temperature is at or near its highest level in the Holocene.
Fig. 5, including WEP data for the past 1.35 million years, shows
that the current WEP SST is within
1°C of the warmest interglacials
in that period."

Perhaps you can take this opportunity to provide the expert peer review
of this study. Remember, you don't have to replicate the data!

[snip]

Tracy P. Hamilton

Peer review that tripe? That would slide across my desk and into my
garbage can....

Comparing proxy to actual temperatures is only something you would do
Hamilton, along with that joke of a graph. Looks almost like Coppock
made it.