Hi All - sorry, I've been insanely busy at work, and haven't had enough time to keep up with messages here.

Just wanted to bring to people's attention a recent paper which has made yet another temperature reconstruction. What's new about that you ask? Well this one explicitly stayed away from using tree rings to infer temperature (following the papers that have found tree ring growth to be a poor indicator of temperature).

Here's the link to the paper http://www.ncasi.org/publications/Detail.aspx?id=3025

And here's the 2000 year temp deviations I pulled from the paper


No Medieval Warm Period there eh?