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- noun Alternative spelling of
tree ring .
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Examples
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In his same 1999 email, Mr. Briffa said tree-ring data overall did show "unusually warm" conditions in recent decades.
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Thermometers show temperatures have risen since the '60s, but tree-ring data don't move in tandem, and sometimes show the opposite.
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Even then, it replaced some tree-ring data with estimates.
Hockey-Stick Hooey 2011
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Even then, it replaced some tree-ring data with estimates.
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The opposite is actually the case: the problem is that post-1960 tree-ring data suggest [...]
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Colorado Plateau tree-ring records reveal severe droughts between 1564 and 1600 and again from 1868 to 1892.
Brian Fagan: John Wesley Powell Was Right Brian Fagan 2011
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My conclusion is that (a) I have absolutely no faith in any time series derived from ground-based temperature measurements and (b) I give no credence whatever to temperature histories concocted from tree-ring studies.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Incentives and Conspiracies 2009
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Raw data (like tree-ring thickness, radioisotope of mud layers in a lake bottom, ice core analyses, etc.) are used as a proxy for reconstruction of the temperature record for 1000 AD to 1960 AD.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Pretty Good Climategate Summary 2009
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Colorado Plateau tree-ring records reveal severe droughts between 1564 and 1600 and again from 1868 to 1892.
Brian Fagan: John Wesley Powell Was Right Brian Fagan 2011
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They decided there was no use in using tree-ring data which showed “temperature drops” for the last decade when they had * ACTUAL TEMPERATURE RECORDS FROM MEASURING STATIONS* showing rises.
Matthew Yglesias » People Support Mandatory Carbon Emission Reduction Fee; Hate Carbon Tax 2010
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