Intrigue you? …wow. You got moxy, massengill-bolsa.

How about the statement in this post that the ice core record “goes down”. Of course it gets cooler. Due to precession of the equinoxes, JJA (June-July-August) insolation is decreasing over the last 2000 years. This is quite evident in the ice core data as McIntyre points out by “it go down”.

What isn’t addressed in this post is the uptick during the last 100-150 years or so. All things being equal, it should keep on “going down” as JJA insolation continues to decrease – just as it did for the last 2000 years (Figure 3F). Both the ice core and lake sediments show it. We’ll leave out the trees to make you happy. What is being argued about here is the length of the “blade of the hockey stick”. Why is there even an inflection at all?

What’s the cause of the increase in temperatures over the last 150 years in both lake and ice archives??? Feel free to throw out any bad datasets and reaverage.

you pointed out a good article about ocean sediment cores from Indonesia. I responded. No one else did. Not even you after calling it “provocative”. So I’m like WTF. Not hard to understand.

BTW, I may have missed it: did anyone talk about precession changes during the last 2000 years when discussing the Kaufman 2009 paper – or just about proxies and statistics. If so, I’d be happy if you could point that out, b/c I couldn’t find it. …just wanted to do some actual climate auditing.

“Of course the SH is important. But what about it is topical?”

Bushfires that have burnt entire small towns to death (whole families melted to death while fleeing in their cars), coastal erosion that is a few metres from destroying $billions of property

The “meeja” here is having a field day blaming these ongoing events on our greedy consumption of fossil fuels. That such events have occurred previously in quite recent geological time is a very topical point, in my view, and this needs to be counter-driven