On Thursday, October 18, 2012 4:58:05 PM UTC+1, Steve Jackson wrote:
Trembling at the thought of setting anthropogenic global warmers up against the ever growing band of sceptics, I offer you this article on historical warm periods from the past. It is worth a read, and I will offer it to my students without comment, just to maintain a balanced view as ever!



http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/1...000-years-ago/

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Are you offering the paper or the link? Because you're not going to get a balanced view from Watts.

Also please note the title of the Esper paper: "Variability and extremes of *northern Scandinavian summer temperatures* over the past two millennia" (my emphasis).

How does this have any bearing on current *global* warming?

Stephen.