some good material here and elsewhere.

Tree-ring records have greater replication (both within a site and between nearby sites) than other types of climate proxy. Good replication helps to minimise the influence of random localised factors when extracting the common signal, and it also allows the comparison of information obtained from different independent sets or sub-sets of data. If independent sets of data – perhaps trees with different mean growth rates or from different sites – show similar variations, then we can have greater confidence that those variations are linked to real variations in climate.http://www.realclimate.org/

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Sums up the Alarmists cause.............hilarious.....;-)

Lakeland with all due respect....... WTF are you talking about?

Don't expect anything from that one.......never has produced anything relevant..never will....;-)

Climate data (processed)

• Surface temperature anomalies (GISTEMP (see also Clear Climate Code), HadCRU (alternate site), NOAA NCDC, JMA, Berkeley Earth)


• Satellite temperatures (MSU) (UAH, RSS, Zou et al)


• Sea surface temperatures (Reynolds et al, OI)


• Stratospheric temperature


• Sea ice (Cryosphere Today, NSIDC, JAXA, Bremen, Arctic-Roos, DMI)


• Radiosondes (RAOBCORE, HadAT, U. Wyoming, RATPAC, IUK, Sterin (CDIAC), Angell (CDIAC) )


• Cloud and radiation products (ISCCP, CERES-ERBE)


• Sea level (U. Colorado, NOAA)


• Aerosols (AEROCOM, GACP)


• Greenhouse Gases (AGGI at NOAA, CO2 Mauna Loa, World Data Center for Greenhouse Gases, AIRS CO2 data (2003+))


• AHVRR data as used in Steig et al (2009)


• Snow Cover (Rutgers)


• GLIMS glacier database


• Ocean Heat Content: NODC, PMEL


• Ocean CO₂ (CDIAC)


• GCOS Essential Climate Variables Index


• NOAA Climate Indicators State of the Climate 2009

To hokey stick or not to hokey stick, THAT is the  question

Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Alarmists,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of Alarmists,
And by opposing end them:

http://gosic.org/ios/MATRICES/ECV/ECV-matrix.htm

You just proved my point.........giggle.....;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxpGNKA8QVA

I agree with there Joz......;-)

That should read, I agree with you there Joz...,.;-)