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<blockquote data-quote="roadrunner2012" data-source="post: 1276901" data-attributes="member: 40736">Phil Jones, from the above mentioned scientific paper:We review evidence for climate change over the past several millennia from instrumental and high-resolution climate “proxy” data sources and climate modeling studies. We focus on changes over the past 1 to 2 millennia. We assess reconstructions and modeling studies analyzing a number of different climate fields, including atmospheric circulation diagnostics, precipitation, and drought. We devote particular attention to proxy-based reconstructions of temperature patterns in past centuries, which place recent large-scale warming in an appropriate longer-term context. Our assessment affirms the conclusion that late 20th century warmth is unprecedented at hemispheric and, likely, global scales. av8torntn, if you would like to link to actual, peer reviewed papers, and post conclusions from them, that is fine, and I will discuss them, but WSJ and other editorial interpretations do not constitute &#039;science&#039;.<a href="http://mediamatters.org/print/research/2010/02/22/wsj-column-falsely-claims-phil-jones-said-there/160724" target="_blank">Jones: &quot;I&#039;m 100% confident that the climate has warmed&quot; and &quot;most of the warming since the 1950s is due to human activity.&quot; Jones also stated during the BBC Q&amp;A, &quot;I&#039;m 100% confident that the climate has warmed. As to the second question, I would go along with IPCC Chapter 9 - there&#039;s evidence that most of the warming since the 1950s is due to human activity.&quot; Jones also said that &quot;[t]he fact that we can&#039;t explain the warming from the 1950s by solar and volcanic forcing&quot; supports the conclusion that recent warming has been largely man-made while previous periods of warming were caused by natural forces.</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="roadrunner2012, post: 1276901, member: 40736"] Phil Jones, from the above mentioned scientific paper: We review evidence for climate change over the past several millennia from instrumental and high-resolution climate “proxy” data sources and climate modeling studies. We focus on changes over the past 1 to 2 millennia. We assess reconstructions and modeling studies analyzing a number of different climate fields, including atmospheric circulation diagnostics, precipitation, and drought. We devote particular attention to proxy-based reconstructions of temperature patterns in past centuries, which place recent large-scale warming in an appropriate longer-term context. [B]Our assessment affirms the conclusion that late 20th century warmth is unprecedented at hemispheric and, likely, global scales. [/B] av8torntn, if you would like to link to actual, peer reviewed papers, and post conclusions from them, that is fine, and I will discuss them, but WSJ and other editorial interpretations do not constitute 'science'. [URL='http://mediamatters.org/print/research/2010/02/22/wsj-column-falsely-claims-phil-jones-said-there/160724'][B]Jones: "I'm 100% confident that the climate has warmed" and "most of the warming since the 1950s is due to human activity."[/B] Jones also stated during the BBC Q&A, "I'm 100% confident that the climate has warmed. As to the second question, I would go along with IPCC Chapter 9 - there's evidence that most of the warming since the 1950s is due to human activity." Jones also said that "[t]he fact that we can't explain the warming from the 1950s by solar and volcanic forcing" supports the conclusion that recent warming has been largely man-made while previous periods of warming were caused by natural forces.[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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