New peer-reviewed paper finds another non-hockey-stick in the tropical Pacific — Published Geophysical Research Letters
Study 'finds another non-hockey-stick from reconstructed sea surface temperatures [SSTs] in the tropical Pacific over the past 850 years. The data shows temperatures were as warm at the end of the record as during portions of the Little Ice Age in the 1200's - 1400's. In addition, the authors find that state-of-the-art climate models are unable to reproduce the tropical Pacific temperature changes of the past 850 years, flatly stating, "the model and the [temperature] reconstruction do not agree with each other." The authors note "These findings imply that the response of the tropical Pacific to future forcings [such as solar & volcanic activity, clouds, and greenhouse gases] may be even more uncertain than portrayed by state-of-the-art models because there are potentially important sources of century-scale variability that these models do not simulate."
