[Goat Locker Freeper]

Standby for Moonbat hysteria! (And, of course, IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT!)

[riverrunner]

to marktwain

[CasearianDaoist]

As I have been saying for years, there is no such thing as "earth sciences."

[AdmSmith]

Thanks for the article. Here is the critical analysis http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/fallupdate04/update.fall04.html

[Crazieman]

*cough* ice age *cough*

But apparently thats not enough evidence that the Earth has its own global cycle.

[kb2614]

....and Haliburton's

[libertylover]

This improper normalization procedure tends to emphasize any data that do have the hockey stick shape, and to suppress all data that do not.

The writer implies that those writing the program didn't know what they were doing, but perhaps they knew EXACTLY what they were doing, i.e., cooking the books in their favor.

[alloysteel]

Application of statistical methods to climate modeling may be a useful tool for limiting the parameters to deal with, and when no important aspect is overlooked, may be expected to yield reproducible results.

But to get the results that fit the observations, there is something introduced called a "finagle factor", that when applied, voila!, the "right answer" magically appears. This is a universal practice that runs throughout ALL scientific endeavor, when there are more unknowns than knowns, the human tendency to build myth as an explanation.

In integral calculus, the process is the reverse of differential calculus, but to cover variations in outcome, there always has to be room for the "jigger factor", expressed as k, from the German word konstant.

[Blue Eyes]

Marking for later reading.

[aardvark1]

Hockey stick? I thought the NHL players were locked out.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Read Gross & Levitt's 'Higher Superstition' or 'Fight From Science and Reason' or Noretta Koertge's 'House Built on Sand' or, best of all, Alan Sokal's essay 'Transgresing the Boundaries'. It'll all be clear.

[elephantman96]

Environmental Wacko Ping!

[MonroeDNA]

[daylate-dollarshort]

What took MIT so long??

John Daly debunked Mann and his "Hockey Stick" more than four years ago. For his efforts, Daly was crucified by the global warming advocates. Too bad he didn't live to see this.

Well done John....

[Reaganghost]

Is this what they are talking about with "fuzzy math"?

[Gritty]

Don't these upstarts realize it's not the nature of the evidence but the seriousness of the charge?

[Straight Vermonter]

Pingareeno

[trebb]

"Their reports may be based on faulty data, but their premise is still valid."

Signed:

Dan Blather

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

I know a two things for certain: The Sun rises in the east and everything the left says is a lie.

[Reaganghost]

Thanks for posting this. Few things brighten my day more than running across something sure to frost the half-baked globull warmers.

[Publius6961]

Suddenly the hockey stick, the poster-child of the global warming community, turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics

That is being charitable. Occam's Razor requires the other obvious explanation to be true: the procedure was tailored to get the desired results. This would require great mathematics to hide the means so well for so long. Fraud, pure and simple.

For many years now, I have been trying to find a reasonable explanation for why "environmentalists" exist. Other than the simple pleasure of controlling other people's lives. I have yet to find one.
Saving the world is not an option. Delusion and ignorance on such a scale is simply too unreal to accept.