12-15-2013, 07:44 PM
Robert Wilson, author of the paper discussed in the OP wrote:
"Our study doesn't go against anthropogenic global warming in any way," said Robert Wilson, a paleoclimatologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and a co-author of the study, which appeared July 8 in the journal Nature Climate Change. The tree rings do help fill in a piece of Earth's complicated climate puzzle, he said. However, it is climate change deniers who seem to have misconstrued the bigger picture.
More information on the study here: http://www.livescience.com/21624-tree-ri...rming.html
What is it that drives the ideologues to seek out and quote completely out of context every scrap of data that they can twist into an indictment of global warming science? I can perfectly understand the motivations of ExxonMobil, the Koch Brothers, and the people they give money to (i.e. Anthony Watts [Wattsupwiththat blog], Richard Muller [when he was a climate change denier...probably his funds are dried up now], etc) since they have money at stake in this. However, why are there so many other nut cases out there who do this? Our pet troll is not the only one...there is a vast right wing blogosphere that seizes on any fiction they can to push this idiocy.