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December 16, 2009
That darned Medieval Warm Period
Or Putative Medieval Warm Period? In answer to a comment somewhere back there I came across this at Unlocked Word Hoard - who has a regular commenter who really understands these things:
In one now-notorious e-mail, Michael Mann wrote that "it would nice to 'contain' the putative 'MWP'" (or Medieval Warm Period), but Mann has since argued that what he meant by that was that he simply wanted to identify exactly when the MWP began, not deny its existence. Science Dude, however, finds Mann's explanation unbelievable, both in the context of the e-mail and Mann's other publications. Read enough of what Mann has written about the MWP (or what he prefers to call the "Medieval Climate Anomaly"), and you'll see that his explanation doesn't pass the laugh test. Whether the MWP was just an anomaly or not, Mann clearly meant to hide it in the data.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at December 16, 2009 10:59 PM