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Author Topic: Solar influence not seen on PAGES2K data (Re:'mini ice age')  (Read 2298 times)

Pmt111500

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PAGES2K study on proxies of the temperatures on various continents came up on another site (In response to the 'mini ice age'-story). I downloaded the associated couple of files to get the values. http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v6/n5/full/ngeo1797.html#supplementary-information
In the study, 30-year averages were displayed on a nifty chart, I assume this was for statistical significance. Here on ASI forum we can be less stringent on various scientific issues, so here's
the 11-year averages (to get much of the short term solar variation out) on the annual values of Pages2K on various continents. A whole bunch of variation can be seen: