Beam Me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 11/18/2009 5:07:28 PM PST by Delacon
But should a moment for self-reflection arise, campaigners against climate change could do worse than take a look at the work of Stephen McIntyre, who has emerged as one of the climate change gang's Most Dangerous Apostates. The reason for this distinction? He checked the facts.
The retired Canadian businessman, whose self-described "auditing" a few years ago prompted a Congressional review of climate science, has once again thrown EnviroLand into a tailspin. In September, he revealed that a famous graph using tree rings to show unprecedented 20th century warming relies on thin data. Since its publication in 2000, University of East Anglia professor Keith Briffa's much-celebrated image has made star appearances everywhere from U.N. policy papers to activists' posters. Like other so-called "hockey stick" temperature graphs, it's an easy sell—one look and it seems Gadzooks! We're burning ourselves up!
"It was the belle of the ball," Mr. McIntyre told me on a recent phone call from Ontario. "Its dance card was full."
At least until Mr. McIntyre reported that the modern portion of that graph, which shows temperatures appearing to skyrocket in the last 100 years, relies on just 12 tree cores in Russia's Yamal region. When Mr. McIntyre presented a second graph, adding data from 34 tree cores from a nearby site, the temperature spike disappears.
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Flat out McIntyre has had the most profound influence on making climate change a real scientific debate. He is the man that broke the hockey stick over his knee.
BTTT!
Well said indeed. This was great reading.
I agree. He simply says, "Show me the data."
God bless him and may he live long and prosper, because the junk scientists will keep conjuring more and more hockey sticks for him to break. They went full-in on the AGW scam and will say and do anything to see legislation to tax and control the world's economy.
It is a very high stakes poker game now. He's playing against billionaires from George Sorus to General Electric to slime ball politicians like Al Gore who all have much to lose if this house of cards they have conjured crashes on them.
As much as I admire the skeptic politicians and pundits, as much as I respect the scientists that pursue their science regardless of those that try to divert them, you have to love McIntyre who says “Just checkin”.
Canadians are well known for breaking the odd hockey stick or two.
And from my favorite Canadian...
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=c6a32614-f906-4597-993d-f181196a6d71
been posting about him since
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992468/posts
Good to hear that so many are not being duped anymore by Algore and his minions.
IMHO, I thought that was the money quote.
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