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Originally Posted by RWebb View Post
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to go back even further, you look at things like tree ring growth widths, ice cores & etc.
And what is the precision on those methods? ...I mean c'mon...

Around here an ElNino vs LaNina trend will drastically change the rain thru the summer, or warmth thru the winter. ...which will help (or hurt) tree ring size. . ..and yet, there was no global temp change driving tree ring growth.

I know it sounds smart to say "well, we can extract the temperature trends by____" But really, without stating the precision they may as well tell fish stories... "it was THIS BIG..." ...and they would have better understood precision.
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