[Yelling]

Averaging 3 centuries to produce one number To be able to say that this is what they did you must have read the paper. So what methodology did they use. Oh, and remember I am actually quoting from the paper that you referred to when you said "I researched the examples you stabbed at above and found it wasn't just glaciers in Argentina (with possible precip influence) but climate compared to today (Cioccale 99)."

[palmer]

There aren't too many ways to get one number, but you are restricted to whatever measurement interval is available in the data. I couldn't find that reference either (Riccardi, 1995) so I don't know how they did their averaging.

But suffice to say it's not thousands of reporting stations worldwide, weighted for area and averaged. Because of that fact, the extremes like 1998 won't show up. You are welcome to point to some error bars and repeat (but not explain) some statistics, and I will try to critique it.

Still waiting for some temperature proxy measurements showing average (about a half century or more) cooler conditions anywhere on earth during the MWP. So far the Vikings are winning.