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."