Tag Archives: lorenz

“More and more concerned about our statement”

Apr 8, 2010 – 6:56 PM

In a previous post, I reported that Coordinating Lead Author Overpeck wanted to “deal a mortal blow to the misuse of supposed warm period terms and myths in the literature”. The MWP was one such target; the Holocene Optimum was another. Overpeck said that there was “no need to go into details on any but […]

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Another Oceanic MWP Proxy

Feb 20, 2007 – 1:59 PM

I’ve been going through the literature and data on ocean sediments looking for proxies with high resolution in the Holocene – something that I discussed a few months ago. Kim et al 2004 and Lorenz et al 2006, two articles by the same group, discuss Holocene SST changes based on alkenones. Most of their proxies […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in Medieval, Ocean sediment, Proxies | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (17)

Lorenz et al 2006: “Tropical Cooling”

Jan 2, 2007 – 2:14 PM

Despite the protestations of the Team, it seems to be a consensus of other paleoclimatologists that the Holocene Optimum was warmer at high southern latitudes. For now, I’ll take this as read, although it’s well worth canvassing the literature. Some citations are at ukweatherworld. The next line of Team attack on the Holocene Optimum is […]

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