| Actually, trees grew faster (red)
in the 1940s - 1950s than
they do now. This may
be due to cooler summer
temperatures (0.5°C) in
the last few decades |
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Average ring-widths in tree-ring chronologies (hundreds of trees) from the mountains of western Canada.
Source: Luckman, B., Dept. of Geography, University of Western Ontario |