“get rid of” the Medieval Warming Period.
Not familiar with what that is.
I assume it was something that would hurt the credibility of their report?”
Back in 2001 when climate kooks were telling us we’re all going to die from global warming, a few learned scientist pointed out that according to the available data, the Medieval Warming Period (AD ~900-1200) was warmer than the Current Warming Period.
The Climate kooks looked at the data, and knew this to be true and were befuddled. How could it be warmer 1000 years before the advent of SUV’s and capitalism?
So they went to work “getting rid” of the MWP. Data was “adjusted” and new studies, like Mann’s Hockey stick, were commissioned.
The shaft of the Hockey Stick shot right thru the MWP straight as an arrow...like it never happened. “Smoothed” proxy (tree ring) data averaged over 100 years to flatten it completely.
Then he attached the Blade: actual thermometer readings, not “smoothed” from the past 100 years.
Apples attached to Oranges and voila!
SMH
Thanks.
I’m sure the average American knows that. /s
Mann’s Hockey Stick also fails to point out that we had the “Little Ice Age” from 1500-1800, when temperatures dropped substantially below normal.
Consequently, his chart of “modern times” starts at exactly the point where temperatures began to rise.
We have a similar flaw in our temperature satellite data.
From 1940-1980, we had below average cool weather.
The first weather satellites launched in 1979, exactly when temperatures began to rise.