Proxy inconsistency and other problems in millennial paleoclimate reconstructions

Comment

Stephen McIntyre et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009.

. 2009 Feb 10;106(6):E10; author reply E11.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.0812509106. Epub 2009 Feb 2.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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