Marc Morano sent this over :

Subject: Letter to Editor

From: “S. Fred Singer”

To: letters@washpost.com

CC:

Dear Editor

Pls consider the appended Letter for early publication.

It corrects a factually incorrect Letter published on Oct 17

Thank you

S. Fred Singer, PhD

Chm, Science & Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)

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In responding to Congressman Joe Barton’s letter

of Oct 12, Prof Gerald North (Letter, Oct 17)

claims that “we have not found any evidence that

his [Prof Michael Mann’s] results were incorrect

or even out of line with other works published

since his original papers.” This statement is

factually incorrect: There are numerous papers,

published in peer-reviewed journals, which show

clearly that the 20th century was not the warmest

in the past 1000 years (as claimed by Mann).

Medieval temperatures were substantially greater

– and so were temperatures during the earlier

Roman Warm Period. All of this is in addition to

the valid criticism of the statistical

methodology used by Mann. Tellingly, Canadian

Prof. Steven McIntyre and Ross McKitrick showed

that even random data fed into the faulty Mann

theory would always yield a record-warmest 20th century.