Post by marchesarosa on Dec 7, 2009 13:08:05 GMT
"Hat tip to Hans von Storch for pointing out this comment in the [Climategate] emails. It was sent by paleoclimatologist Ed Cook to the CRU's Keith Briffa, outlining his opinions on the current (2003) state of knowledge of past temperatures:
The results of this study will show that we can probably say a fair bit about <100 year extra-tropical NH temperature variability (at least as far as we believe the proxy estimates), but honestly know fuck-all about what the >100 year variability was like with any certainty (i.e. we know with certainty that we know fuck-all).
Read that carefully people. We know a fair bit about the temperatures in the last 100 years, but only for the extra-tropics. Before that, we know nothing. Nothing.
Nothing.
Read the whole email here www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=356&filename=1062592331.txt. It's astonishing."
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Thanks to Bishop Hill for that insight.
The results of this study will show that we can probably say a fair bit about <100 year extra-tropical NH temperature variability (at least as far as we believe the proxy estimates), but honestly know fuck-all about what the >100 year variability was like with any certainty (i.e. we know with certainty that we know fuck-all).
Read that carefully people. We know a fair bit about the temperatures in the last 100 years, but only for the extra-tropics. Before that, we know nothing. Nothing.
Nothing.
Read the whole email here www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=356&filename=1062592331.txt. It's astonishing."
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Thanks to Bishop Hill for that insight.