From: Stefan Rahmstorf To: Jonathan Overpeck Subject: Box 6.1: The Medieval Warm Period Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:47:04 +0100 Cc: t.osborn@uea.ac.uk, Keith Briffa , Eystein Jansen , drind@giss.nasa.gov, Valerie Masson-Delmotte , joos Hi friends, good idea for a box. Just want to make sure you're aware of the attached paper by Goosse et al., which may be helpful in illustrating what we all know, but what here is shown in a citeable way: local climate variations are dominated by internal variability (redistribution of heat), only very large scale averages can be expected to reflect the global forcings (GHG, solar) over the past millennium. Stefan -- Stefan Rahmstorf www.ozean-klima.de www.realclimate.org Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\goosse_et_al_20051.pdf"