His abstract is shown below with a graph of the temperature record following:
Historical data provide a baseline for judging how anomalous recent temperature changes are and for assessing the degree to which organisms are likely to be adversely affected by current or future warming. Climate histories are commonly reconstructed from a variety of sources, including ice cores, tree rings, and sediment. Tree-ring data, being the most abundant for recent centuries, tend to dominate reconstructions. There are reasons to believe that tree ring data may not properly capture long-term climate changes. In this study, eighteen 2000-year-long series were obtained that were not based on tree ring data. Data in each series were smoothed with a 30-year running mean. All data were then converted to anomalies by subtracting the mean of each series from that series. The overall mean series was then computed by simple averaging. 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 the MWP being approximately 0.3°C warmer than 20th century values at these eighteen sites.
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Totally meaningless without statistical analysis.
Jonathan, something came up in a discussion at Climate Audit you might want to think about.
If there are changes in daytime warming and nighttime cooling due to solar insolation and outgoing radiation changes over the day, there should also be a summer/winter effect, because of more daylight in summer and less in winter.
HI Phil,
thats something I also have contemplated, and fiddled around with a little, but not extensively. I will look into it.
Phil, can you give me a link for he discussion at climate audit?
cheers
Start here.
http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=2378#comment-167400
Further down there is a comment I made about how cloud cover decreases west to east in WA without much effect on annual averages. Most of the effect is in diurnal range and annual range.
Note that while cloud cover does decline west to east that changes when you reach the vermin (rabbit proof) fence and there is an increase in cloudiness to the east of the fence as wheatfields change to scrub forest.
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http://www.climateaudit.org/
?p=2378#comment-167400
thanks phil, i have actually found some significant summer/winter effects, some which I would have hypothesised were true given a sun induced global warming, some others are interesting, unexpected, but explainable.
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