[Doctor Stochastic]

The most revealing line in the article "There aren't many places in the Pacific where you can recover sediments".

Quote mining alert. You didn't even quote the whole sentence. "There aren't many places in the Pacific where you can recover sediments of this age in which the fossils are not so recrystallized that they've lost their original geochemical signatures," Zachos said. Your misquotation changes the meaning of the original.

[JasonC]

Show me a map of all the sites, all the implied temperatures, vs. lattitude. Show me the predicted distribution of temperature vs. lattitude from the model. Put actual figures on every one of them, not "about this" or "more or less as predicted" that. Then you can talk to me about it not being data mining.