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They didn't have records before 1880 according to the article. So, it could have been warmer, but there is no record of it.
by assblaster 7y ago
They didn't have records before 1880 according to the article. So, it could have been warmer, but there is no record of it.
- itcrowd 7y agoThere have been many reconstructions of global temperatures before 1880 using a variety of temperature proxies. A nice summary in one image is given on Wikipedia [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology#/media/File:All_palaeotemps.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleoclimatology#/media/File:A...
- assblaster 7y agoThey also mix proxies but superimpose temperature records from the last 150 years. A better curve would be using one set of proxy data to maintain consistency.