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THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS This PDF is available at http://nap.edu/11676 SHARE Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years (2006) DETAILS 160 pages | 7 x 10 | PAPERBACK ISBN 978-0-309-10225-4 | DOI 10.17226/11676 CONTRIBUTORS GET THIS BOOK Committee on Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years; Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate; Division on Earth and Life Studies; National Research Council FIND RELATED TITLES SUGGESTED CITATION National Research Council 2006. Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/11676. 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NORTH (Chair), Texas A&M University, College Station FRANCO BIONDI, University of Nevada, Reno PETER BLOOMFIELD, North Carolina State University, Raleigh JOHN R. CHRISTY, University of Alabama, Huntsville KURT M. CUFFEY, University of California, Berkeley ROBERT E. DICKINSON, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta ELLEN R.M. DRUFFEL, University of California, Irvine DOUGLAS NYCHKA, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado BETTE OTTO-BLIESNER, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado NEIL ROBERTS, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom KARL K. TUREKIAN, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut JOHN M. WALLACE, University of Washington, Seattle NRC Staff IAN KRAUCUNAS, Study Director CHRIS ELFRING, Board Director AMANDA STAUDT, Senior Program Officer ELIZABETH A. GALINIS, Research Associate LEAH PROBST, Research Associate DIANE GUSTAFSON, Administrative Coordinator NORMAN GROSSBLATT, Senior Editor v Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years BOARD ON ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE ROBERT J. SERAFIN (Chair), National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado M. JOAN ALEXANDER, NorthWest Research Associates/CORA, Boulder, Colorado FREDERICK R. ANDERSON, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, Washington, D.C. MICHAEL L. BENDER, Princeton University, New Jersey ROSINA M. BIERBAUM, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MARY ANNE CARROLL, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor CAROL ANNE CLAYSON, Florida State University, Tallahassee WALTER F. DABBERDT, Vaisala Inc., Boulder, Colorado KERRY A. EMANUEL, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge DENNIS L. HARTMANN, University of Washington, Seattle PETER R. LEAVITT, Weather Information Inc., Newton, Massachusetts JENNIFER A. LOGAN, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts VERNON R. MORRIS, Howard University, Washington, D.C. F. SHERWOOD ROWLAND, University of California, Irvine THOMAS H. VONDER HAAR, Colorado State University/CIRA, Fort Collins ROGER M. WAKIMOTO, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado Ex Officio Members ANTONIO J. BUSALACCHI, JR., University of Maryland, College Park ERIC F. WOOD, Princeton University, New Jersey NRC Staff CHRIS ELFRING, Director PAUL CUTLER, Senior Program Officer AMANDA STAUDT, Senior Program Officer MARIA UHLE, Program Officer IAN KRAUCUNAS, Associate Program Officer CLAUDIA MENGELT, Associate Program Officer ELIZABETH A. GALINIS, Research Associate LEAH PROBST, Research Associate ROB GREENWAY, Senior Program Assistant DIANE GUSTAFSON, Administrative Coordinator ANDREAS SOHRE, Financial Associate vi Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years Foreword Our understanding of climate and how it has varied over time is advancing rapidly as new data are acquired and new investigative instruments and methods are employed. Thus in 2005, I suggested to the U.S. Congress that the National Research Council (NRC) could help answer questions about the data and methods that have been used in constructing records of Earth’s surface temperatures from times when there were no scientific instru- ments, using proxy indicators. How has temperature varied over the last 2,000 years? How certain is the answer to this question? Subsequently, this study was requested by Representative Sherwood Boehlert, chairman of the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives. Chairman Boehlert asked for a clear and concise report in a relatively short period of time, and the NRC agreed to under- take the study quickly. An ad hoc committee was formed, with the group carefully com- posed to include the breadth and depth of expertise and perspectives needed to analyze all aspects of how surface temperatures are estimated and interpreted and to comment generally on climate science. The NRC asked the committee to summarize current
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