Subject: 'Unprecedented' warming drives dramatic ecosystem shifts in North Atlantic, study finds
From: "Paul V. Sheridan" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Professor David Pimentel" <[email-masked]>, "Professor John Christy" <[email-masked]>, "Bruce Estes" <[email-masked]>, "Bill Steele" <[email-masked]>, "Nigel Calder" <[email-masked]>, "Professor Reid Bryson" <[email-masked]>, "Professor Timothy Ball" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 12:02:16 -0500

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov08/Greene.kr.html

Charles:

The presumed context of "recent decades" comes to us in the first paragraph of the subject/linked article where later you are quoted:

 "the rate of warming we are seeing [now] is unprecedented in human history,"

Are you referring to the 'hockey stick' issue when you make that claim?  When you make that quoted claim, are you referring to the human history of record keeping, or are you referring to human history in terms of its supposed life span on the planet in-total?  I must assume the former, correct?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/15/goddard_arctic_ice_mystery/

Did you see the recent NBC News report which alleged North Polar ice sheet reductions; the report that depicted penquins falling off icebergs?  Is this Penquin issue discussed in your  Ecology (Vol. 89, No. 11) November report?  I ask because the media seems to have gotten cold feet lately about Antartica:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050819093118.htm

Please address the 'hockey stick' question above.

Paul Sheridan

Other links of interest:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23411799-7583,00.html

http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020820southseaice.html