Posted on 06/28/2010 1:12:44 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Michael Mann says hockey stick should not have become 'climate change icon' The scientist behind the controversial 'hockey stick' graph has said it was 'somewhat misplaced' to make his work an 'icon of the climate change debate'.
By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent Published: 8:30PM BST 28 Jun 2010
Professor Michael Mann plotted a graph in the late 1990s that showed global temperatures for the last 1,000 years. It showed a sharp rise in temperature over the last 100 years as man made carbon emissions also increased, creating the shape of a hockey stick.
The graph was used by Al Gore in his film 'An Inconvenient Truth' and was cited by the United Nations body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as evidence of the link between fossil fuel use and global warming.
But the graph was questioned by sceptics who pointed out that is it impossible to know for certain the global temperature going back beyond modern times because there were no accurate readings.
The issue became a central argument in the climate change debate and was dragged into the 'climategate' scandal, as the sceptics accused Prof Mann and his supporters of exaggerating the extent of global warming.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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It made perfect sense at the time - they planned to use it like a hockey stick to beat us into submission....
ping
We'll never know, since he chose to destroy his source data and tell potential peer-reviewers that it was none of their business.
It is now a “hokey” shtick.............
Translation: I never expected my hoax to be uncovered, so don’t hold it against me now.
I take it this is Mann’s way of saying the hockey stick was a fraud.
Q: What’s the diff between a degree in English and a degree in Climate Research?
A: The English major is better at math.
Q: What’s the diff between a degree in English and a degree in Climate Research?
A: The English major is better at math.
Memo to MM: STFU
bump
“I’m sorry (I got caught)”
Greater use of nuclear energy and liquified natural gas and advancements in all ways in which we can deal with and adjust for climate change, and adjust in response to climate change “events”, will prove to a better, more economical and safer investment than any combination of direct “carbon capture”, “carbon tax”, “carbon reduction” and subsidized “alternative energy” schemes.
The new climate change icon is a sex-crazed poodle.
“Just because I lied with my key exhibit doesn’t mean the whole Global Warming theory is a Hoax!” ~ Michael Mann
(”trick to hide the decline”)
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