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To: freedumb2003
I keep asking for the overall pattern of the Earth's temperature over a 50 year cycle 40,000 years ago (and 80,000 and 120,000). I have yet to get an answer.

Paleoclimatology can't provide that. The reason is proxies with decent granularity like ice cores have poor correlation to temperature. So while an ice core is pretty good for telling you about CO2 changes over a 50 year interval 40k years ago, so what? It tells you little about temperature. OTOH, the temperature proxies like sea creatures embedded tell you a lot about sea temperature, but have very poor granularity. So you won't find out anything about a 50 year period, or even very much within a 1000 year period 40k years ago.

Your implication is of course correct, a 50 blip of warming like we see today is part of natural variation and it takes unnatural manipulation (i.e. smoothing in Mann's hockey stick) to make it appear abnormal.

37 posted on 05/28/2006 6:19:24 AM PDT by palmer (Money problems do not come from a lack of money, but from living an excessive, unrealistic lifestyle)
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To: palmer

Thanks for giving me the science behind what we know.

I knew the concept but not the details.

:)


40 posted on 05/28/2006 6:22:51 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (I LIKE you! When I am Ruler of Earth, yours will be a quick and painless death </Stewie>)
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