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- noun Plural form of
tree-ring .
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Examples
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One cycle identified from tree-rings in the beds of Sierra lakes chronicles severe drought conditions between about A.D. 910 until around 1100, at a time when California's population was a fraction of what it is today.
Brian Fagan: Delusion! Delusion! What Drought Is Over? Brian Fagan 2011
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One cycle identified from tree-rings in the beds of Sierra lakes chronicles severe drought conditions between about A.D. 910 until around 1100, at a time when California's population was a fraction of what it is today.
Brian Fagan: Delusion! Delusion! What Drought Is Over? Brian Fagan 2011
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Mr. Mann and his fellow Climategate emailers used what they called "Mann's Nature trick" to "hide" the mismatch between late-20th-century warming and the cooling the tree-rings showed.
Hockey-Stick Hooey 2011
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It included the questionable use of annual bristlecone-pine tree-rings for temperature reconstruction.
Hockey-Stick Hooey 2011
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One cycle identified from tree-rings in the beds of Sierra lakes chronicles severe drought conditions between about A.D. 910 until around 1100, at a time when California's population was a fraction of what it is today.
Brian Fagan: Delusion! Delusion! What Drought Is Over? Brian Fagan 2011
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Mr. Mann and his fellow Climategate emailers used what they called "Mann's Nature trick" to "hide" the mismatch between late-20th-century warming and the cooling the tree-rings showed.
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One cycle identified from tree-rings in the beds of Sierra lakes chronicles severe drought conditions between about A.D. 910 until around 1100, at a time when California's population was a fraction of what it is today.
Brian Fagan: Delusion! Delusion! What Drought Is Over? Brian Fagan 2011
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They cherry-picked only those trees that gave the desired result, but they incorrectly assumed that tree-rings are only a function of temperature.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Climate indicators exist in various forms (e.g., pollen in lake-bottom sediments, patterns in tree-rings, air bubbles frozen in glacial ice and growth rings in coral).
AP Environmental Science Chapter 20- Higher-Order Effects 2008
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Or maybe they should simply re-write their hypothesis that tree-rings are proxies for temperature.
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