Posted on 03/19/2013 10:50:08 PM PDT by neverdem
We wrote here about a recent effort by a group of climate alarmists headed by geologist Shaun Marcott to resurrect Michael Manns discredited hockey stick. The Marcott paper, as you would expect, received uncritical coverage in the liberal press. But it didnt take long for climate scientists to begin taking it apart, as we noted in our post.
Now Steve McIntyre, who was principally responsible for showing that Manns original hockey stick was a fraud, has gone over Marcotts data on the key proxies he uses for 20th century temperatures, ocean cores. McIntyre found that Marcott and his colleagues used previously published ocean core data, but have altered the dates represented by the cores, in some cases by as much as 1,000 years. Anthony Watts sums up:
It seems the uptick in the 20th century is not real, being nothing more than an artifact of shoddy procedures where the dates on the proxy samples were changed for some strange reason.
McIntyres post on his research is here. This chart shows how critical Marcotts re-dating was to his conclusion that temperatures spiked in unprecedented fashion in the 20th century. The red line shows ocean core temperatures using the original dates under which the data were published: it shows cooling during the 20th century. The black line shows the same data, only with the dates changed by Marcott. It shows temperatures rising significantly, rather than declining:...
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Climate change ping
Here’s yer ding ding ding ping ping ping!!!
it’s a funny sort “science” where someone can come up with some statistically based guesses about a temperature and date associated with some long dead biomatter deposited in an ocean core, and then someone later can change the date guesses (oh by say 1000 years or so) based again on some obscure statistical manipulation but of course find nothing wrong with the previous person’s temperature guesses.
all the mysterious statistical manipulations, complete with “uncertainty estimates,” leading to exactly the opposite result from previous interpretation of the exact same raw data, leading to a fat government payday for the “new” result.
but put your uncertainty aside and be assured, it is all very “scientifical.”
Ah, the wonders of Warmist "science." Adjust the numbers until they prove AGW.
Steve McIntyre is a hero.
To: neverdem
its a funny sort science where someone can come up with some statistically based guesses about a temperature and date associated with some long dead biomatter deposited in an ocean core, and then someone later can change the date guesses (oh by say 1000 years or so) based again on some obscure statistical manipulation but of course find nothing wrong with the previous persons temperature guesses....
And remember that all this was probably accomplished by getting a “Government Grant”...... Now THAT is important, eh?
Is this type of fraud prosecutable?
What are they cores of? Ice? Surely not wood?
What are they cores of? Ice? Surely not wood?
If one nickel of federal money was spent on this study, the guy should spend the rest of his life in jail. That would be the fate of any defense contractor who did something like this.
Keyword Globalwarminghoax shows them.
I'll check shortly to see if Anthony has anything new.
Isn’t he a lawyer also....maybe he wants Mann to sue him.....now that could get interesting.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/about-us
John H. Hinderaker is a lawyer with a nationwide litigation practice.
WUWT is all over this....
Just found this item and posted it on this thread:
Uh oh, there be grafting in Marcott et al ( Marcott's reconstruction of Mann's Hockey Stick...)
Ice cores likely.
I have a theory. Every time someone invokes a “hockey stick” prediction; it’s bullshit.
It is estimated that our Federal Goverment has spent $90 billion plus in the last decade plus funding such research papers.
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