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  • in the context of long-term multicentury and above dendroclimatic reconstruction, this partial non-climatic enhancement of twentieth-century tree growth, particularly if it acts in tandem with temperature forcing, will bias the coefficients in any regression-based equation estimating tree growth as a function of recent measured temperatures.

    Briffa: Large-Scale Decline in Ring Widths « Climate Audit 2006

  • I was watching a multicentury parade of the blood price between human and beast laboring by in a half-phantom form.

    Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

  • The Family Circle cookie contest was not extinct, but when, in 2004, Heinz Kerry blithely admitted that a staffer had submitted a recipe in her stead, it was clear that the multicentury reign of happy first hausfraus was petering out.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • The Family Circle cookie contest was not extinct, but when, in 2004, Heinz Kerry blithely admitted that a staffer had submitted a recipe in her stead, it was clear that the multicentury reign of happy first hausfraus was petering out.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • The Family Circle cookie contest was not extinct, but when, in 2004, Heinz Kerry blithely admitted that a staffer had submitted a recipe in her stead, it was clear that the multicentury reign of happy first hausfraus was petering out.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • The Family Circle cookie contest was not extinct, but when, in 2004, Heinz Kerry blithely admitted that a staffer had submitted a recipe in her stead, it was clear that the multicentury reign of happy first hausfraus was petering out.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • The dynamic oceans introduce the long timescales (multicentury to millennia) associated with the equilibration of the abyssal ocean.

    Global coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models 2009

  • These programs would be many decade, multigenerational or even multicentury programs.

    Be vewwwwy vewwwwy quiet…. Julianne 2008

  • By the way, I am well into my 40s, so what I describe is a multidecadal view, with statistical ignificance of the sample in time on a multicentury scale.

    Long Beach WA « Climate Audit 2007

  • Consequences include a reduction of the efficiency of the Southern Ocean sink of CO2 in the short term about 25 years and possibly a higher level of stabilization of atmospheric CO2 on a multicentury time scale.

    Unthreaded #14 « Climate Audit 2007

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