NATIONAL POST “A pillar of the Kyoto Accord is based on flawed calculations, incorrect data and an overtly biased selection of climate records, an important new paper reveals.”
It accuses that the original study done by Mann, Bradley, & Hughes, Global-Scale Temperature Patterns and Climate Forcing Over the Past Six Centuries produced highly flawed conclusions and yet was the basis for the Kyoto Accord.
The study gathered climatic data going back as far as 1000AD and Canada published pamphlets that were used to generate support for ratifying and implementing the Kyoto Protocol within Canada. This dramatic graph shows relatively level temperature averages over the previous 900 years then a big temperature spike in recent years.
The latest study by Ross McKitrick (University of Guelph) used the original data but he produced different results. The study revealed that the Mann, Bradley, & Hughes report had incorrectly imported data into their excel spreadsheet program. The second and third (corrected?) charts below shows what Ross McKitrick had discovered when he imported the data correctly and completely…
According to this latest study we are experiencing weather still below but similar to the 15th century. Anyone want to bet this study is also flawed? 
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Who can you trust? You really have to look at there agenda. They’ll make the numbers fit there point of view. What was going on in the 1400’s? Too many animals, too much pooh?
I believe that Joan of Arc was burned at the stake around the early 1400’s.
Seriously I don’t know why that time period would be warmer. I don’t think I would trust any 900 year old weather data to be accurate, let alone draw conclusions from it.
Surely as human beings, we have the capacity to think in other than calculative mode. Science has its place – and an important place; but humans have the capacity to think beyond the objective. If objectivity is the only mode of being for the thinking human, we allow ourselves to see the world as a thing, and we of course as things within it. Surely we strive to be more than that. Immersed in the physical world, as finite beings, do we not have to learn to think in different ways in order to come to terms with the world of our own creation?
So true my wise sis, but me thinks you expect too much from the Jerry Springer, red-neck culture of today’s westernized society. [re: think beyond the objective] To most, the world is just a thing… to be used for personal pleasure and profit. It’s hard to grasp (for me) how much affect modernized mankind (over last 200yrs) has had on the planet earth and yet the human species (finite to be sure) is such a tiny speck of the total timeline for the universe.