Is there some reason you're responding to a comment I made EIGHT FUCKING YEARS AGO?No, it is Gooks like YOU who have no idea about Resolution factors in Proxies and continuously ignore the numerous examples of low-resolution proxies of Dr. Mann who is on record of admitting they are LOW RESOLUTION proxies thus can't objectively say 1998 (based on a yearly resolution) is warmer than all those low-resolution proxy data (100+ years for a data point) of the last 2,000 years which is why his claim is absurd.
You are too unaware of your chronic inability to understand basic resolution values of data which is why your gookism is so vivid.
Observations have done nothing but validate the hockey stick. The denier target of choice - proxy resolution - has been about as meaningul as a bucket of bongo shit. The world is getting hotter and the only explanation is human GHG emissions.