Posted on 12/06/2009 1:50:25 PM PST by Shellybenoit
The term "hockey stick" was coined by the head of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Jerry Mahlman, to describe the pattern of historical temperatures in the northern hemisphere (it kind of looks like a hockey stick on its side). The chart, created by Professor Michael Mann of Penn State, shows relatively stable temperatures until around 100 year ago when we see a spike up. It is one of the key pieces of information used to prove that global warming is about to destroy the world.
To create most of the chart , climate change scientists had to use natural sources (as opposed to someone taking the temperature with a thermometer). Tree rings and ice core samples were used to measure the temperature levels, which are standard procedure. What isn't standard procedure is the revelation via the "stolen" CRU emails, that the tree samples were "cherry-picked to skew the study. You see, the famous Hockey stick is fudged. The scientists substituted a different kind of tree, who's rings would not show a medieval warming spell with temperatures much hotter than today. And it may be the cherry-picking of one kind of Siberian tree that Phil Jones of the CRU may have meant when he talked about using Dr. Mann's "trick" to adjust the data :
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Stop calling these charlatans “scientists.”
Did they use the same trees they glued the black moths on, to prove D’winism?
Playing catch-up;) I was not sure when Krakatoa blew - but it begged the question of *100 years ago*!
BINGO!!!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa
The best-known eruption of Krakatua culminated in a series of massive explosions on August 26–27, 1883, which was among the most violent volcanic events in modern and recorded history.
With a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) of 6,[3] the eruption was equivalent to 200 megatons (MT) of TNT—about 13,000 times the nuclear yield of the Little Boy bomb (13 to 16 kT) that devastated Hiroshima, Japan during World War II and four times the yield of the Tsar Bomba (50 MT), the largest nuclear device ever detonated.
The 1883 eruption ejected approximately 21 cubic kilometres (5.0 cu mi) of rock, ash, and pumice.[4]
The cataclysmic explosion was distinctly heard as far away as Perth in Western Australia, about 1,930 miles (3,110 km) away, and the island of Rodrigues near Mauritius, about 3,000 miles (5,000 km) away.[5]
I’ve been using the expression “What are you, a climatologist?” for anyone who is making up the “facts”.
bump
When a so called “scientist” qualifies his expertise with “climate,” he is a liar. Real scientists are skeptical of global warming. So, when you see a headline that reads something like this, “Skeptics challenge climate scientists...,” it means, “Real scientists challenge frauds.”
Thank God for the Telegraph. They’ve been all over this story from the beginning. Jeez, if we were waiting for an American news source to keep us informed on this event we’d be SOL.
Yet this is a Eurowienie newspaper. How does that work?
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