Question Earthority!

“You may remember the story in the media from the end of 2004. A study was done which used French records of grape harvests in Burgundy to reconstruct the temperatures from 1370 to 2003. And they announced that ‘the summer of 2003 appears to have been extraordinary, with temperatures that were probably higher than in any other years since 1370.’ The study was duly printed in Nature magazine and the rest of the media passed it on with the usual global warming spin that is now common for the media. Douglas Keenan, over at Informath.org was asked to look at the report. First he read the article to get the gist of what they were saying. His job was simple. He was only supposed to evaluate the math used to draw the conclusions.” (05/30/07)