Email 71, Mar 2006, Richard Alley: "all the people [at the NRC "hockey stick" committee?] I heard were asked the same thing: Do we know the temperature of a millennium ago within 0.5 C? All gave some qualified version of "no"."

Email 71

I surely hope you're right, but I would wager a beer that they are less favorable than you'd like. I don't know how you answered, but all the people I heard were asked the same thing: Do we know the temperature of a millennium ago within 0.5 C? All gave some qualified version of "no".