How Gavin Schmidt and Michael Mann almost got it right in 2001 by Stephen Wilde, guest post at Climate Realists | Climate Realists

This is what they then said:

"These results provide evidence that relatively small solar forcing may play a significant role in century-scale NH winter climate change. This suggests that colder winter temperatures over the NH continents during portions of the 15th through the 17th centuries (sometimes called the Little Ice Age) and warmer temperatures during the 12th through 14th centuries (the putative Medieval Warm Period) may have been influenced by longterm solar variations."

The trouble is that instead of pursuing that approach they seem to have junked it after assuming that the same mechanisms were no longer in control during the late 20th century.

Furthermore they omitted certain additional components that with the passage of time are becoming more clearly self evident.

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