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<blockquote data-quote="roadrunner2012" data-source="post: 1276869" data-attributes="member: 40736">Phil Jones did not write any of the 2013 report. He did reach these conclusions in his 2004 report &#039;<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2003RG000143/abstract;jsessionid=1A34CDFCC1EB1E8DD76DB64CA45219F8.f03t03" target="_blank">Climate Over The Last Millennia&#039;</a>:&quot;The dramatic differences between regional and hemispheric/global past trends, and the distinction between changes in surface temperature and precipitation/drought fields, underscore the limited utility in the use of terms such as the “Little Ice Age” and “Medieval Warm Period” for describing past climate epochs during the last millennium. Comparison of empirical evidence with proxy-based reconstructions demonstrates that natural factors appear to explain relatively well the major surface temperature changes of the past millennium through the 19th century (including hemispheric means and some spatial patterns). Only anthropogenic forcing of climate, however, can explain the recent anomalous warming in the late 20th century.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roadrunner2012, post: 1276869, member: 40736"] Phil Jones did not write any of the 2013 report. He did reach these conclusions in his 2004 report '[URL='http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2003RG000143/abstract;jsessionid=1A34CDFCC1EB1E8DD76DB64CA45219F8.f03t03'][I]Climate Over The Last Millennia'[/I][/URL]: "The dramatic differences between regional and hemispheric/global past trends, and the distinction between changes in surface temperature and precipitation/drought fields, underscore the limited utility in the use of terms such as the “Little Ice Age” and “Medieval Warm Period” for describing past climate epochs during the last millennium. Comparison of empirical evidence with proxy-based reconstructions demonstrates that natural factors appear to explain relatively well the major surface temperature changes of the past millennium through the 19th century (including hemispheric means and some spatial patterns). [B]Only anthropogenic forcing of climate, however, can explain the recent anomalous warming in the late 20th century."[/B] [/QUOTE]

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