"Temperature reconstructions" refers to the process of determining past temperatures using available evidence. It involves collecting data from sources like tree rings, ice cores, or historical records and analyzing them to estimate what the temperature was like in the past. This helps scientists understand how temperatures have changed over time and can provide insights into climate patterns and trends.
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Although
temperature reconstructions from proxy data help us understand the character of natural climate variability, attribution of recent climate change relies on a broad range of methodologies in addition to the proxy reconstructions.
In my opinion the most fruitful way forward would be to focus on a topic that has a basis in data and fact — the various «tricks» used
in temperature reconstructions.
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proxy temperature reconstructions of the last 2000 years have been performed for the northern hemisphere, and over shorter time scales for the southern hemisphere and tropics.
In their second approach, the BEST team performed a global
land temperature reconstruction with their own methodology, using all the data and the very - rural sites only.
Both the climate model simulations and the updated
temperature reconstructions agree that the twentieth century was likely the warmest in at least the past millennium.
For this reason, it is widely acknowledged by scientists that tree - ring data are not reliable after 1960, and therefore should not be used for
temperature reconstructions after that date.
Although temperature reconstructions from proxy data help us understand the character of natural climate variability, attribution of recent climate change relies on a broad range of methodologies in addition to the proxy reconstructions.
The differences in methodology and datasets supporting these reconstructions make them distinct, but whether they represent a deliberate sample from the range of
possible temperature reconstructions is not clear.
A synthesis of surface -
temperature reconstructions shows ocean surface cooling from ad 1 to 1800, with much of the trend from 800 to 1800 driven by volcanic eruptions.
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