Mole, what the heck is Thomas Friedman talking about in his piece today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/opinion/03Friedman.html?_r=1&hp&oref=s...

He wrote:

Their last drilling project here, which was completed in 2004, focused on the layers 14,500 to 11,000 years ago. That project is already causing a stir in the climate community. In an article just published in the journal Science Express, Dahl-Jensen’s team wrote about how it had discovered from the ice cores that the atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere over Greenland “changed abruptly” just as the last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago.

It seems to have been driven by a sudden change in monsoons in the tropics. The change was so abrupt that it warmed the Northern Hemisphere over Greenland by 10 degrees Celsius in just 50 years — a dramatic increase.

That can't be right, can it? I asked you for the second fastest rate of current warming after this one and your graph had no mention of this? You talked about warming over periods of 5000 years.

Or is the Northern hemisphere not global enough, and your graph ignores local aberrations, like 10 degrees warming over half the planet?