“...This particular operation looks more and more like ex-post cherry picking from red noise (along the lines of discussions long ago by both David Stockwell and myself.) This is a low-tech way of generating hockey sticks, not quite as glamorous as Mannian principal components, but it “works” almost as well.
It’s pretty discouraging that Gerry North and Gaby Hegerl were unequal to the very slight challenge of identifying this problem in review. ...”
That’s gonna leave a mark!
To conclude that mans' input into the universe is THE DOMINANT FACTOR in Global Warming is an absurdity.
If it were the case, the warming would be totally stagnant or constantly increasing but it is not.
Cleaner air, new sources of energy...of course....But at the end of the day...we're simply not going to change the weather by anything we do.
Footnote...Like windmills are new!!!
The first proposal in our area, in a "snob" area (like the Kennedy's)said NO...it's ugly. These folks would have made lousy pioneers.