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Posted on 11/20/2009 12:36:42 PM PST by Reaganesque
So far one of the most circulated e-mails from the CRU hack is the following from Phil Jones to the original hockey stick authors - Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes.
From: Phil Jones To: ray bradley ,mann@xxxxx.xxx, mhughes@xxxx.xxx Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000 Cc: k.briffa@xxx.xx.xx,t.osborn@xxxx.xxx
Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm, Once Tims got a diagram here well send that either later today or first thing tomorrow. Ive just completed Mikes Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keiths to hide the decline. Mikes series got the annual land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999 for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998. Thanks for the comments, Ray.
Cheers Phil
Prof. Phil Jones Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) xxxxx School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) xxxx University of East Anglia Norwich Email p.jones@xxxx.xxx NR4 7TJ UK The e-mail is about WMO statement on the status of the global climate in 1999 -report, or more specifically, about its cover image.
Back in December 2004 John Finn asked about "the divergence" in Myth vs. Fact Regarding the "Hockey Stick" -thread of RealClimate.org.
Whatever the reason for the divergence, it would seem to suggest that the practice of grafting the thermometer record onto a proxy temperature record as I believe was done in the case of the hockey stick is dubious to say the least. mike's response speaks for itself.
No researchers in this field have ever, to our knowledge, "grafted the thermometer record onto" any reconstrution. It is somewhat disappointing to find this specious claim (which we usually find originating from industry-funded climate disinformation websites) appearing in this forum. But there is an interesting twist here: grafting the thermometer onto a reconstruction is not actually the original "Mike's Nature trick"! Mann did not fully graft the thermometer on a reconstruction, but he stopped the smoothed series in their end years. The trick is more sophisticated, and was uncovered by UC over here.
When smoothing these time series, the Team had a problem: actual reconstructions "diverge" from the instrumental series in the last part of 20th century. For instance, in the original hockey stick (ending 1980) the last 30-40 years of data points slightly downwards. In order to smooth those time series one needs to "pad" the series beyond the end time, and no matter what method one uses, this leads to a smoothed graph pointing downwards in the end whereas the smoothed instrumental series is pointing upwards a divergence. So Mann's solution was to use the instrumental record for padding, which changes the smoothed series to point upwards as clearly seen in UC's figure (violet original, green without "Mike's Nature trick").
TGIF-magazine has already asked Jones about the e-mail, and he denied misleading anyone but did remember grafting.
No, thats completely wrong. In the sense that theyre talking about two different things here. Theyre talking about the instrumental data which is unaltered but theyre talking about proxy data going further back in time, a thousand years, and its just about how you add on the last few years, because when you get proxy data you sample things like tree rings and ice cores, and they dont always have the last few years. So one way is to add on the instrumental data for the last few years. Jones told TGIF he had no idea what me meant by using the words hide the decline. That was an email from ten years ago. Can you remember the exact context of what you wrote ten years ago? Maybe it helps Dr. Jones's recollection of the exact context, if he inspects UC's figure carefully. We here at CA are more than pleased to be able to help such nice persons in these matters.
I'm at work and can't access the source code.
Folks, it really looks like we have ourselves another Pentagon Papers moment. There too, documents were stolen which helped bring down an administration/political organization.
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Steve McIntyre is going to take down the Global warming Establishment brick by brick. With the emails and much of the data and codes now in his hands, expect a lot of stuff from CA in the next few weeks/months.
The “nature trick.”
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