The "Hide the Decline" Email Put in Context

Bluegrass Pundit ^ | Friday, December 11, 2009 | Bluegrass Pundit

[Askwhy5times]

Al Gore and other anthropogenic global warming believers claim the Climategate emails are taken out of context. Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit has blogged an excellent article that puts the Climategate "Hide the decline" email in context and it doesn't help the AGW position. In a nutshell, the IPCC wanted to use the historical proxy temperature change data in their Third Assessment Report, but they were concerned about the chart showing the wrong message since it declined in the late twentieth century.

A proxy diagram of temperature change is a clear favourite for the Policy Makers summary. But the current diagram with the tree ring only data [i.e. the Briffa reconstruction] somewhat contradicts the multiproxy curve and dilutes the message rather significantly… This is probably the most important issue to resolve in Chapter 2 at present.. (Folland, Sep 22, 1999, in 0938031546.txt)

Here is what the chart would have looked like.

[Askwhy5times]

This goes beyond 'smoothing' data. This is 'faking' data.

[XenaLee]

It may be fake data, but it’s accurate data!

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[GloriaJane]

[StAntKnee]

Don’t fail to go to the original blog. How ironic that the full context doesn’t exonerate hiding the decline. Notice especially how the graph at McIntyre’s site shows the decline hidden beneath the spaghetti of other graph lines.

Me thinks the spaghetti is unravelling.

And Steve McIntyre oughta be TIME’s Man O’ Year

[Former Proud Canadian]

You can “massage” data to show anything you want. Looks like that’s what CRU and their ilk did.

[rfp1234]

[petercooper]

bttt

[grey_whiskers]

Don’t fail to go to the original blog. How ironic that the full context doesn’t exonerate hiding the decline. Notice especially how the graph at McIntyre’s site shows the decline hidden beneath the spaghetti of other graph lines.

Me thinks the spaghetti is unravelling.

And Steve McIntyre oughta be TIME’s Man O’ Year

Screw that. Rescind Al Gore's Nobel (and Obama's) and give one to McIntyre and the other shared between whoever publicized the Hadley CRU emails and Sarah Palin.

Cheers!