Monthly Archives: June 2005

Alpine Glaciers "disappeared 7000 years ago"

Jun 10, 2005 – 7:18 AM

A new study on Alpine glaciers has shown that the recent melting since the lowest point of the "Little Ice Age" in the 17th Century is not extraordinary in the context of climate change since the end of the last Ice Age: The Alpine glaciers are shrinking, that much we know. But new research suggests […]

By John A | Posted in News and Commentary, Proxies | Tagged , , , | Comments (9)

Bunn et al. [2005] – 20th century tree growth in the Sierra Nevadas

Jun 7, 2005 – 3:45 PM

Bunn et al. [2005] have an interesting discussion of 20th century tree growth (especially foxtail pines) in the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains, in the current Holocene, which, needless to say, was interesting to me. The extraordinary and uncritical embedding of MBH98-99 in paleoclimate mentality recurs here in a curious way. Roger Pielke wondered whether […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in bristlecones, Proxies | Tagged , , | Comments (87)

Nature on Press Releases

Jun 2, 2005 – 9:35 PM

Today’s Nature has an editorial criticizing two researchers issuing a press release merely when they submitted a paper for review. Apparently scientists in the field have been protesting. Has anybody seen any climate scientists protesting about Ammann and Wahl’s press release? I guess it depends upon whose ox is being gored. But the manner in […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in General | Tagged , | Comments (13)

MBH98 Proxies

Jun 2, 2005 – 8:00 AM

One point that many people do not understand is that merely labelling something a "proxy" and putting it in a multiproxy dataset does not mean that it has any correlation to temperature. I’ve plotted up the 22 proxy series in the 15th century MBH98 dataset so that others could see a little more clearly what […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in MBH98 | Tagged | Comments (21)