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THE HOCKEY STICK, BROKEN AGAIN
Power Line ^ | March 17, 2013 | JOHN HINDERAKER

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 Mann’s discredited hockey stick. The Marcott paper, as you would expect, received uncritical coverage in the liberal press. But it didn’t 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 Mann’s original hockey stick was a fraud, has gone over Marcott’s 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.

McIntyre’s post on his research is here. This chart shows how critical Marcott’s 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:...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agw; climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; hockeystick
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1 posted on 03/19/2013 10:50:08 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem; SunkenCiv; All

Climate change ping


2 posted on 03/19/2013 11:14:01 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: neverdem; Ernest_at_the_Beach

Here’s yer ding ding ding ping ping ping!!!


3 posted on 03/19/2013 11:14:47 PM PDT by SierraWasp (Mark Twain said: "It's easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled!!!)
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To: neverdem

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.”


4 posted on 03/19/2013 11:56:11 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: neverdem
This is a classic:

Ah, the wonders of Warmist "science." Adjust the numbers until they prove AGW.

Steve McIntyre is a hero.

5 posted on 03/19/2013 11:58:48 PM PDT by TChad (Call them Oppressives, not Progressives.)
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To: neverdem
Hide The Decline
6 posted on 03/20/2013 12:58:00 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: BerryDingle

To: neverdem
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....

And remember that all this was probably accomplished by getting a “Government Grant”...... Now THAT is important, eh?


7 posted on 03/20/2013 3:54:14 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: TChad
but have altered the dates represented by the cores

Is this type of fraud prosecutable?

8 posted on 03/20/2013 4:03:51 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: neverdem
To me, the most significant part of this article is when Hinderaker comes out and calls Marcott and Mann frauds. Mann is already suing National Review Online and Mark Steyn for such accusations. Hinderaker must be very confident that he can stand up to a similar lawsuit.
9 posted on 03/20/2013 4:25:25 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: dadfly

What are they cores of? Ice? Surely not wood?


10 posted on 03/20/2013 5:08:49 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: dadfly

What are they cores of? Ice? Surely not wood?


11 posted on 03/20/2013 5:08:49 AM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: scrabblehack

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.


12 posted on 03/20/2013 6:13:51 AM PDT by studly hungwell (Mohammad and Marx: Spreading misery and death wherever their ideas go.)
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To: SierraWasp; neverdem
Have post several articles from Watts up with that?....closely following Steve McIntrye's work in showing the marcott's fudging of the data base he used to come up with the hockey Stick once again.

Keyword Globalwarminghoax shows them.

I'll check shortly to see if Anthony has anything new.

13 posted on 03/20/2013 9:54:29 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: norwaypinesavage

Isn’t he a lawyer also....maybe he wants Mann to sue him.....now that could get interesting.


14 posted on 03/20/2013 9:56:58 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: norwaypinesavage
From the powerline website:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/about-us

John H. Hinderaker is a lawyer with a nationwide litigation practice.

15 posted on 03/20/2013 10:01:32 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: 1010RD; neverdem; SierraWasp
Not likely....it's just a case of a "climate scientitst torturing his data"

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...)

16 posted on 03/20/2013 10:21:49 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: scrabblehack

Ice cores likely.


17 posted on 03/20/2013 10:23:05 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: neverdem

I have a theory. Every time someone invokes a “hockey stick” prediction; it’s bullshit.


18 posted on 03/20/2013 10:25:19 AM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: studly hungwell
Where you been....

It is estimated that our Federal Goverment has spent $90 billion plus in the last decade plus funding such research papers.

19 posted on 03/20/2013 10:26:55 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: dadfly; scrabblehack
Not sure what you mean by "Ocean Core" but I did find this:

Oceanic core complex

and a picture:

Saint Peter Saint Paul Megamullion, Equatorial Atlantic Ocean after Motoki et al. (2007)

20 posted on 03/20/2013 10:37:41 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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