OT - Soon and Baliunas on the hocky-stick curve versus the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period

[Joseph Gwinn]

This article in Climate Research (the journal that the CRU folk were
apparently trying to put out of business) caused a firestorm back in
2003, but I never got around to chasing it down to see for myself.

The recent WSJ oped piece by Patrick Michaels ("OT - How to Manufacture
a Climate Consensus -- The East Anglia emails are just the tip of the
iceberg. I should know ", posted 18 December 2009) got my curiosity up,
so I tracked the 2003 article down.

The article is "Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the
past 1000 years" (Soon and Baliunas):

<http://www.int-res.com/articles/cr2003/23/c023p089.pdf>

There was much fallout from this article, as mentioned in in Michaels'
opinion piece and detailed in Climate Research. The easiest way to find
the details is to search for "Soon Baliunas" (without the quotes) at
<http://www.int-res.com/journals/cr/cr-home/>.

Climate Research allows free downloads of articles older than five
years, so all are now available gratis.

Joe Gwinn