We don't need no stinkin hockey sticks........
Posted on 04/08/2013 9:41:22 AM PDT by neverdem
Last month, a group of scientists headed by geologist Shaun Marcott launched the latest salvo in the global warming war. They announced that they had reconstructed the last 11,000 years of Earth climate history, based on various proxies, and had found that in the 20th century there was an unprecedented uptick in temperature. The Marcott paper was hailed by liberal media outlets; to cite just a few examples:
* “We’re screwed: 11,000 years’ worth of climate data prove it.” The Atlantic, March 10.
* “The modern rise that has recreated the temperatures of 5,000 years ago is occurring at an exceedingly rapid clip on a geological time scale, appearing in graphs in the new paper as a sharp vertical spike.” Justin Gillis, New York Times, March 7.
* “’Rapid’ head spike unlike anything in 11,000 years. Research released Thursday in the journal Science uses fossils of tiny marine organisms to reconstruct global temperatures…. It shows how the glode for several thousands of years was cooling until an unprecedented reversal in the 20th century.” The Associated Press, March 7.
But when real scientists–that is, those who apply a skeptical, scientific approach rather than a religious attitude of fervor–studied the Marcott paper, it quickly fell apart. We wrote about the Marcott fiasco here and here. It turned out that Marcott and his colleagues had created the 20th century warming spike–which was, in reality, the sole purpose of their exercise–by changing the dates on some of the samples they used as proxies.
In the Financial Post, Ross McKitrick reviews the entire sorry episode:
The new, and startling, feature of the Marcott graph was at the very end: Their data showed a remarkable uptick that implied that, during the 20th century, our climate swung from nearly the coldest conditions over the...
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
“Feels like” winter in Sacramento!
Everyone bought this crap as actual science.
ANYONE with a brain for science knew it was crap just from looking at the graph.
The total ‘change’ they were talking about was a half a degree. That’s right, 0.5 degF., in a graph that supposedly covers hundreds of years.
The problem right off the bat is that there was no way to measure something close to a half a degree from TREE RINGS
And to generate a graph from that and extrapolate it to a hundred years in the future is scientific fraud on a criminal level.
Look how many BILLIONS of dollars have been wasted because of this fraud?
SEND HIM A BILL!
The least they could do is black-ball all of these people who have manipulated the data. They should lose their positions, any grants they have & be cut off from the peer review process. That is a minimum punishment. We’ll never get our billions back, but this might help to curtail junk science in the future.
Without fail, EVERY hockey stick projection turns out to be wrong.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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We’re making progress! It took years to get the data to disprove Mann’s fraud. This one went down in months.
An astrophysicist pointed out to me that Mann used so few data points to draw his hockey-stick graph that you could draw almost any curve connecting them—including global cooling.
Global Warming Fraud and the Future of Science - J. R. Dunn
The "scientists" who perpetrated the global warming scam approached their science in exactly the opposite manner as the approach described above. They formulated a theory based on political ideology (as well as the path of least resistance to "grant" money) and then did whatever they had to do with their data to "prove" it.
The world has now seen the complete unraveling of the "global warming" / "climate change" scam thanks to the diligent investigative work of honest scientists like those cited in the above story who quickly exposed the Marcotte fabrication, along with the leaked email dumps of November 2009 and November 2011 (and now even more recent dumps). The discipline of science has taken a massive hit over the past five-plus years and it could take decades for science - - and scientists - - to regain any credibility with the public.
A lot of that burden must fall on honest scientists, and the first and most important thing they need to do is scream for the heads of Michael Mann, Phil Jones, Shaun Marcott, and the rest of the greedy, lying "climategate" fraudsters. I guess we'll see if they have the integrity to do it.
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Marcotts thesis did not contain the hockey stick. The stick was added to his original thesis when he decided to publish to an international audience. I actually believe it wasn’t his idea to do it.
The guy deserves a Congressional Medal of Freedom.
Politicians want corrupt science to pave the way for bigger government, more taxes and power. I don't think he'll be getting a medal.
We don't need no stinkin hockey sticks........
Below is Marcott’s response to the controversy
All the carbon exchanges are dead, Jim!
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