Tag Archives: tasmania

Re-examining Cook’s Mt Read (Tasmania) Chronology

Aug 16, 2016 – 11:13 PM

In today’s post, I’m going to re-examine (or more accurately, examine de novo) Ed Cook’s Mt Read (Tasmania) chronology, a chronology recently used in Gergis et al 2016, Esper et al 2016, as well as numerous multiproxy reconstructions over the past 20 years. Gergis et al 2016  said that they used freshly-calculated “signal-free” RCS chronologies […]

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Gergis’ Two Medieval Proxies

Jun 3, 2012 – 10:27 PM

IPCC AR5 (First Draft) cited Gergis et al as follows: New paleo records from Australasia provide evidence of MCA warming around 1250–1330 CE, [my bold] somewhat later than maximum medieval warmth described from many Northern Hemisphere regions (Gergis et al., submitted). Following peak medieval warmth in the early 1300s, a cooling trend reaching a temperature […]

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