Posted on 08/30/2008 9:44:09 PM PDT by ventanax5
Then in 1999 an obscure young US physicist, Michael Mann, came up with a new graph like nothing seen before.
Instead of the familiar rises and falls in temperature over the past 1,000 years, the line ran virtually flat, only curving up dramatically at the end in a hockey-stick shape to show recent decades as easily the hottest on record.
This was just what the IPCC wanted, The Mediaeval Warming had simply been wiped from the record.
When its next report came along in 2001, Mann's graph was given top billing, appearing right at the top of page one of the Summary for Policymakers and five more times in the report proper.
But then two Canadian computer analysts, Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, got to work on how Mann had arrived at his graph.
When, with great difficulty, they eventually persuaded Mann to hand over his data, it turned out he had built into his programme an algorithm which would produce a hockey stick shape whatever data were fed into it.
Even numbers from the phonebook would come out looking like a hockey stick.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
This is the moronic graph that Algore has built his “global warming” hoax upon. But hey! If it will make the Goracle rich and we’re stupid enough to fall for it, the more power to him.
“The idea that the IPCC represents any kind of genuine scientific “consensus” is a complete fiction. Again and again there have been examples of how evidence has been manipulated to promote the official line, the most glaring instance being the notorious “hockey stick”.”
On a daily basis I watch the “leaders” of the EU and several states use this non-issue to take more and more money and liberty from the people of Europe.
That's what it is all about (here and everywhere) power both economic and political. Hopefully, the tide is beginning to turn.
Let me see if I understand this... the whole thing was a hoax from the get-go because that hockey stick graph was and is totally bogus no matter HOW you slice it? That “physicist” that dreamed it up should be strung up by his “privates” with piano wire. His LIE is going to cost us a whole lot of money and freedom if we don’t do something and that right soon!
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The curious thing is that the hockey-stick graph is still around....used in local meetings and minor publications. As far as most folks are concerned within the environmental movement...its fact and hasn’t been removed from world publication.
When you get some free time you should go here and read this article.
http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-warming-01.html
The author was one of the first people to speak out that we needed to clean up the air and water. He says that we’ve done that and he says Algore’s money making hoax needs to be exposed. The author is an honest environmentalist. He goes into Algore’s usage of the fraudulant “hockey stick” graph.
The findings of the skeptics should be headlined on every rag and periodical in the country. But we know what’s happening. The truth be damned, the radical leftists are still in charge of the most of the “news” people receive. Just look at how most commercials are pitched today. Practically every one of them has something about saving the planet from global warming or some other rot. But thankfully the program to counter the leftist lies has begun.
Warning: The following may or may not be based on scientific fact Kyoto RIP A Fantasy Presentation of Skepticism about Global Warming Alarmism including anti-hockey stick graph descriptions with cute names A gentleman who looks like Albert Einstein dressed as Mark Twain enters the room: (Or maybe just a regular guy with a pointer and a mortarboard) Good evening ladies and gentlemen, I’m so glad you could all make it here to learn about the hockey stick graph. This is most encouraging; imagine so many people curious about science and hockey stick graphs when they could be lounging at home watching hockey on cable TV instead! Apparently this graph has gotten people to believing that the world is rapidly heating up and turning into a living hell. Well just look at the trajectory on this thing here! No wonder people are getting concerned! Well as a wise man once said, there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics! This so called “Hockey Stick Graph” makes the grade school error of comparing apples to oranges! Imagine that. And imagine that it is held up as an example of a scientific consensus! Well how can that be? Frankly it’s almost unexplainable. Perhaps it could be explained with a whole bunch of graphs?! As you may know, hockey is a game with many colorful sounding penalties. The most colorful of which is of course, the Drawing Blood penalty. So it is all together fitting that I should introduce the case against the Hockey Stick Graph with this somewhat complicated “Drawing Blood” Chart. This chart attempts to show the relationships between Apples/ oranges, damned lies, impossible trajectories, hockey sticks, evidence, proof and proclaimed scientific consensus. Whew! My head is spinning, how can anyone possibly make sense out of all this? Well at the end of a hockey game, when you’re desperate, you pull the Goalie! So here is the “Pulling Apart the Goalie Chart”. What we do here is, we pull the Hockey Stick Graph apart in order to more clearly show where the apples and oranges are. On the left you have the apples which are shown on the flat shaft of the hockey stick with no upward trajectory. On the right you have the oranges which are on the blade of the hockey stick with the wickedly upward sloping trajectory. (The apples have the stem sticking out, for the oranges we thought it more appropriate to use lemons which are a shaped more like ovals) Then we draw a trajectory line on the left half and say: Guess what boys and girls, that wicked trajectory you see on the right could just as well be over here on the left too, nobody knows any different! That trajectory we’re so worried about could easily be just a transient spike. You don’t see anything like that on the left side because it’s impossible for the kind of data used to show that kind of spike. Hockey fans know that you are not allowed to pass the puck across two or more lines, so here we have the Two Line Pass, or should it be the Two Line Pass/Fail graph. You see these two lines here? The one with the upward sloping trajectory is based on the Hockey Stick Graph. The line with no trajectory is based on the Hockey Stick Graph with the bristlecone pine data removed. You see the Bristlecone Pine lives under extreme conditions and often grows not at all during the year unless conditions are ideal. For that reason it turns out that this tree is unusually sensitive to having extra carbon dioxide in the air, so it has been growing faster lately giving the false impression of unusually high temperatures. In hockey, one is allowed to shove one’s opponent with a hockey stick so long as the blade of the stick is grounded on the ice. If they cheat and pick up the stick, it’s called “cross checking”. So we made up this Cross Checking Graph. This shows that public belief in global warming alarmism is directly correlated to the frequency of media reports of retreating glaciers and pictures of cute looking polar bear cubs. This little section here shows that changes in precipitation are far larger than temperature changes, and that variation in snowfall has a far greater effect on glacier size than changes in temperature. This section here shows that the Antarctic is not warming and points out that this is the one place on earth where extra CO2 would be most likely to result in temperature increase. One of the longest penalties in hockey is the misconduct penalty. We call this chart the “Ten Year Misconduct Penalty Chart”. It lists some of the reasons why academics may dread the possibility of spending perhaps the next ten years working for industry if their funding were to run out when people discovered that there is no global warming emergency! Ten Year Misconduct Penalty Chart: Reason number one: The possibility of tenure might disappear. Reason number two: They might not be able to work on climate science. Reason number three: They might loose their summer vacation. Reason number four: They might have to meet a lot more deadlines. Reason number five: They might have to deal with a lot more jerks. Reason number six: People might not respect their hard earned credentials. Reason number seven: They might lose a good parking spot. Reason number eight: Rules about booze in the workplace might be more strict. Reason number nine: They might have to move. Reason number ten: There might not be as many attractive young women around. If you have trouble remembering this last one, tape a note to your bathroom mirror that says “It’s hormones stupid!” Icing Of The Puck Video And finally, there is a rule in hockey that you can’t dump the puck into your opponent’s end zone from behind the red line. This is called “icing”. That word inspired the making of this video which we call the “Icing Of The Puck” video. In it we see an amiable looking old fellow squeezing icing out of a tube onto a hockey puck to form the words: “Kyoto RIP 2009”
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