Re: Al Those Great Scientists Here

Tom Kunich wrote:
> Was there a Medieval Warm Period? YES, according to data published by 
> 532 individual scientists from 325 separate research institutions in 38 
> different countries ... and counting!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_warm_period

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) states that 
the "idea of a global or hemispheric "Medieval Warm Period" that was 
warmer than today however, has turned out to be incorrect" and that what 
those "records that do exist show is that there was no multi-century 
periods when global or hemispheric temperatures were the same or warmer 
than in the 20th century". Indeed, global temperature records taken from 
ice cores, tree rings, and lake deposits, have shown that the Earth was 
actually slightly cooler (by 0.03 degrees Celsius) during the 'Medieval 
Warm Period' than in the early- and mid-20th century.

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