The document is an invitation email for a Congressional briefing on a new report by Dr. Willie Soon from the George C. Marshall Institute. The report challenges the claim that the 20th century was the warmest in the last 1000 years and that the 1990s was the warmest decade. The briefing will discuss the report's findings that the temperature record for the past 1000 years is too incomplete to support conclusions about specific time periods being the warmest. Lunch will be provided at the briefing on May 16, 2003 from noon to 1:30 pm in room G-50 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Reservations are required.

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invite you to
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a Congressional Staff and Media Brief
Was the 20th- Century Climate Unusual.
of Climate History
Exploring the Lessons and Limits
with
Dr. Willie Soon
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astro
Friday, May 16, 2003
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Noon-1: 3 PM
Building
Room G-50, Dirksen Senate office
Lunch provided.
Reservations required.
Please RSVP by calling 202-296-9655
or e-mail info~marshall.org <mailto:_nfo~marshall.org>
fin ings of a new Marshall Institute
Dr. Willie Soon will discuss the
History: Was the 20th Century
report, Lessons and Limits of Climat- 3
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Climate Unusual? (at <http://www.marshall.org/article.php?id=1 not
of the late 20th century was
shows that the temperature record
remarkable relative to that of the past 1,000 years.
Institute's Senior Scientists Willie
The report, authored by the Marshall
frequently made claims that the 20th
Soon and Sallie Baliunas, challenged the millennium, that the 1990s were
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century was wanner than any other 1998 was the warmest year
the warmest decade of the millenniu , and that
in the past 1,000 years.
that
e studies, the report concludes
After reviewing more than 200 clina is far too incomplete and
1,000 years
the temperature record for the past
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1625 K Street, NW, Suite 1050
Washington, DC 20006
The Marshall Institute -- Science for Better Public Policy
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