On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:11:09 +0000 (UTC), Larry Blanchard
wrote:

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:07:14 -0700, Artemus wrote:

Never mind. I see why you didn't provide one. The balance of the
article doesn't support the part you quoted.

Indeed. Here's the next paragraph:


The density and width of tree rings shows how warm it was during each
year's growing season, and trees thereby serve as a record of long-term
climate trends.
The density and width of tree rings shows how warm it was during each
year's growing season, and trees thereby serve as a record of long-term
climate trends.
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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 manmade 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."

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"However, the study actually does none of the above. "Our study doesn't
go against anthropogenic global warming in any way," said Robert Wilson,
a paleoclimatologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and a
co-author of the study, which appeared July 8 in the journal Nature
Climate Change. The tree rings do help fill in a piece of Earth's
complicated climate puzzle, he said. However, it is climate change
deniers who seem to have misconstrued the bigger picture"

IOW, "Here's how _we_ want you to construe our findings..." rather
than letting people go with the facts. Riiiiiiiiiiight.

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