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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (827747)	1/5/2015 3:51:40 PM
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The point is they're working with our datasets.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (827747)	1/5/2015 3:56:07 PM
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Hottest year ever? Giant clam reveals Middle Ages were warmer than today Anthony Watts / 5 hours ago January 5, 2015 While government science and media begin the ramp-up to claim 2014 as the “hottest year ever” China’s Sea’s biggest bivalve shows that the Middle Ages were warmer than today, when Carbon Dioxide was lower. ........... http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/01/05/hottest-year-ever-giant-clam-reveals-middle-ages-were-warmer-than-today/ ht fubho I know at this point you resort to ad hominem attack on Anthony Watts. But he is just the messenger here: From the Chinese Academy of Sciences: Two recent papers, one is in Earth-Science Reviews and the other is in Chinese Science Bulletin, have studied key chemical contents in micro-drilled giant clams shells and coral samples to demonstrate that in the South China Sea the warm period of the Middle Ages was warmer than the present. ............ Dr. Yan said: “This new paper adds further material to the substantial body of real-world proxy evidence establishing that today’s global temperature is within natural ranges of past changes.” From the comments: ....... Jimbo says: January 5, 2015 at 8:23 am The Roman and Mediaeval Warm Periods both showed up prominently in the western Pacific and East Asia. The coral island Atolls must have drowned. It was a ‘clamity’. ?? “…..Half a world away in the tropical Pacific Ocean a similar saga unfolded. During the Greco-Roman climatic optimum, the Polynesians migrated across the Pacific from island to island, with the last outpost of Easter Island being settled around A.D. 400 (35)….” http://www.pnas.org/content/97/23/12433.full ............ And this newly cited study (January 4, 2015) confirms that it was also clearly warmer and dryer in Central America during the Medieval Warm Period, to wit: Drought led to Mayan civilization’s fall: study https://us.newshub.org/drought-led-mayan-civilization-s-fall-study-8872809.html ............. JohnTyler says: January 5, 2015 at 10:02 am That clam was put in the South China Sea by Exxon .............