Oh noes! It’s ‘sposed to go the other way!

Paleoclimatologists working in Lapland have some new and interesting findings:

Professor Dr. Jan Esper’s group at the Institute of Geography at JGU used tree-ring density measurements from sub-fossil pine trees originating from Finnish Lapland to produce a reconstruction reaching back to 138 BC. In so doing, the researchers have been able for the first time to precisely demonstrate that the long-term trend over the past two millennia has been towards climatic cooling.

Where’s my hockey stick?

Tip from Gary Jones, who’s making that Google+ thing work.