[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Ok....I read it as the temperatures were hotter 1300 years ago than anything since including the years since 2000.

[aruanan]

Ok....I read it as the temperatures were hotter 1300 years ago than anything since including the years since 2000.

I thought it was claiming that temperatures at the end of the 20th century were the hottest over the past 1300 years, though that didn't necessarily mean that before 1300 years ago they were hotter. They had to wipe out the Medieval Warm Period to do this. In the 1990 IPCC report, the MWP was acknowledged to have existed. By 17 years later, Mann, et al, had eradicated both it as well as the mini ice age following it.