[palmer]

I believe that the MWP may well be warmer than the early part of the 20th century, roughly on par with the average temperature of the 20th century and slightly cooler than the recent decades (say 1985 onwards).

Briffa1998 (files labeled 2001) was quoted by Soon as showing the 20th century to be warmer than any of the previous 5. The data is interesting though, it shows NH growing season average temperatures from tree rings as having most of that 20th century warmth in the 1930's and 40's.

So this seems to disprove part of your beliefs above, although you will no doubt cling tightly to them.

[Yelling]

First, you are quoting Soon's interpretation which, as was shown above, seems to be a little biased and in some places just plain wrong.

Second, even if Soon is correct I am not sure I follow your point here. My comment was about the MWP and your comment is about a data set that covers the LIA.

My comment still stands.