Tag Archives: Medieval Warm Period

Irreproducible Results in PNAS

Apr 24, 2009 – 11:10 AM

In Al Gore’s movie and book An Inconvenient Truth, he presents a graph which he identifies [in the book] as “Dr. Thompson’s Thermometer.” Gore attributes this graph to the ice core research of Lonnie Thompson, and says [in the book] that it provides independent evidence for the validity of the “Hockey Stick” temperature reconstruction of Michael Mann […]

By Hu McCulloch | Posted in AIT, Thompson | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (152)

Five Monsoon O18 Series

Dec 4, 2008 – 11:00 AM

Jud Partin observed yesterday that a “fantastic new record” had been recently (early Nov 2008) published from Wanxiang, China. Zhang et al report that their new record is “broadly similar” to the reconstructions of Esper, Mann and Jones 2003 and Moberg as follows: The Wanxiang record, with a d18O range of ~1.3 per mil (‰) […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Posted in Mann et al 2008, Proxies, Speleothem, Thompson | Also tagged , , , , , | Comments (107)