[palmer]

You are obviously not following my point. Soon was quoting the paper as showing anomalous 20th century warming (which is not surprising since the data starts in the LIA). I looked at the raw data and drew my own conclusion which is that the warming is during the 1930's and 40's (with cooling since). Your comment was this:

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).

The data shows that there was warming in 1930's and 1940's. Your comment is at least leaning heavily.

[Yelling]

But there has not been cooling since. There was a period of very slight cooling about 1940 - 1980, followed by a greater increase of warming. The warming since 1980 has been about 0.4C, lots of room for a MWP.