Figure 1: Temperatures in the last two millenia.
Craig Loehle has eliminated tree ring series from his datasets, explaining that they don't seem to be good temperature proxies. The result is a new kind of a hockey stick, the so-called zig-zag hockey stick. ;-) The new blade in the middle of the stick is called the Medieval Warm Period.
For an audit of Loehle's paper, see McIntyre I, McIntyre II.
See also: Loehle vs Schmidt, Loehle vs tree ring reconstructionsWinds
Also, in a soon-to-be-published article in Climate Dynamics, Matulla et al. show that storminess - high winds - hasn't changed in Europe during the 20th century. See World Climate Report for details.
Figure 2: P95 of geostrophic wind strength. For example, the heavy curve that goes back (much more than) 130 years is from Prague-Klementinum and two German-speaking stations.
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