Have not been a practicing member of the Catholic church for over 25 yrs... for all the reasons we've seen in the last couple centuries. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
This was done by subtracting the anomalous pattern of growth that emerges over the past couple centuries in these chronologies relative to other tree - ring chronologies that otherwise exhibit very similar patterns of growth back in time, but which are unlikely to be influenced by the same non-climatic factors. (realclimate.org)