On 7/17/2012 3:57 PM, Leon wrote:
A new analysis of 2,000 years of tree ring data has quickly made climate
change deniers' list of greatest hits to the theory of man made global
warming.
The tree rings "prove [the] climate was WARMER in Roman and Medieval times
than it is now," the British newspaper the Daily Mail reported last week,
"and [the] world has been cooling for 2,000 years."
That and other articles suggest the current global warming trend is a mere
blip when viewed in the context of natural temperature oscillations etched
into tree rings over the past two millennia. The Star-Ledger, a New Jersey
newspaper, mused that the findings lock in "one piece of an extremely
complex puzzle that has been oversimplified by the Al Gores of the world."

A narrow study using data derived from tree rings in sub-arctic Lapland?
Yeah, I'm sure that applies very broadly to the rest of the world.