WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRPAPHIC INSTITUTE STUDY PUBLISHED IN NATURE: AGW ALARMISTS' RECONSTRUCTIONS AND PREDICTIONS MIGHT BE WAY OFF

Woods Hole embraces the Medieval Warm Period – contradict Mann’s proxy data

The study is published in the journal Nature.

In a joint project with the Indonesian Ministry of Science and Technology (BPPT), the study’s authors, Delia Oppo, a paleo–oceanographer with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and her colleagues Yair Rosenthal of Rutgers State University and Braddock K. Linsley of the University at Albany-State University of New York, collected sediment cores along the continental margin of the Indonesian Seas and used chemical analyses to estimate water past temperatures and date the sediment. The cruise included 13 US and 14 Indonesian scientists.

“This is the first record from the region that has really modern sediments and a record of the last two millennia, allowing us to place recent trends in a larger framework,” notes Oppo.

... “The more interesting and potentially controversial result is that our data indicate surface water temperatures during a part of the Medieval Warm Period that are similar to today’s,” says Oppo. NH temperature reconstructions also suggest that temperatures warmed during this time period between A.D. 1000 and A.D. 1250, but they were not as warm as modern temperatures. Oppo emphasizes, “Our results for this time period are really in stark contrast to the Northern Hemisphere reconstructions.”

... Oppo comments, “Although there are significant uncertainties with our own reconstruction, our work raises the idea that perhaps even the Northern Hemisphere temperature reconstructions need to be looked at more closely.”

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a private, independent organization in Falmouth, Mass., dedicated to marine research, engineering, and higher education. Established in 1930 on a recommendation from the National Academy of Sciences, its primary mission is to understand the oceans and their interaction with the Earth as a whole, and to communicate a basic understanding of the oceans’ role in the changing global environment.

BOTTOM-LINE: AGW IS NOT PROVEN, NOR IS AGW THE CONSENSUS.

COMPUTER MODELS THAT AGW ALARMISTS USE TO PREDICT CATASTROPHE ARE NOT ACCURATE.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS NATURAL AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN AND THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD IS REPLETE WITH PROOF WHICH DIRECTLY CONTRADICTS THE AGW CROWD'S ANTI-CO2/ANTI-GREENHOUSE GASES SCENARIOS.