--- Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote: <snip all> Additionally, all of the debate surrounding Mann's claim that the 1990s were the hottest decade in the last 1,000 years, short-term regional variation plots (popularized in Michael Crithon's "State of Fear", see Don's short-term plot reference) and the "little" hockey stick all concern the 1,000 year period before present - or 1/700 to 1/40 of the left-side of the following ice core gas graphs that are proxies for global temperature: 700,000 year resolution: EPICA and Vostok Ice Sheet Core Plots 018(Temperature proxy) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Epica_do18_plot.png 140,000 year resolution: EPICA, Vostok (O18), NGRIP and GRIP (2H) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ice-core-isotope.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Epica-vostok-grip-ngrip-o18.png 70,000 year resolution: Heinrich events http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Heinrich-events.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_event 40,000 year resolution: NGRIP and GRIP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Grip-ngrip-do18-closeup.png Dansgaard-Oeschger events http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dansgaard-Oeschger_event European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPICA EPICA Ice Core Data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore/antarctica/domec/domec_epica_data.htm... North Greenland Ice Core Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGRIP Greenland Ice Core Project (completed 1989-1992) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_ice_core_project http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/icecore/greenland/summit/document/gripinfo.ht... Vostok Ice Core (completed 1970s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_Station#Ice_Core_Drilling - Kurt ____________________________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited