Posted on 02/20/2010 6:49:50 AM PST by Libloather
Iceberg Ahead
Climate scientists who play fast and loose with the facts are imperiling not just their profession but the planet.
By Fred Guterl | NEWSWEEK
Published Feb 19, 2010
One of the most impressive visuals in Al Gore's now famous slide show on global warming is a graph known as the "hockey stick." It shows temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rising slowly for most of the last thousand years and turning steeply upward in the last half of the 20th century. As evidence of the alarming rate of global warming, it tells a simple and compelling story. That's one reason the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change included the graph in the summary of its 2001 report. But is it true?
The question occurred to Steven McIntyre when he opened his newspaper one morning in 2002 and there it was—the hockey stick. It was published with an article on the debate over whether Canada should ratify the Kyoto agreement to curb greenhouse-gas emissions. McIntyre had little knowledge of the intricate science of climate change; he didn't even have a Ph.D. He did have a passion for numbers, however. He also had some experience in the minerals business, where, he says, people tend to use hockey-stick graphs when they are trying to pull one over on you. "Reality usually isn't so tidy."
As every climate scientist must know by now, McIntyre's skepticism of the hockey stick launched him on a midlife career change: he has become the granddaddy of the global warming "denial" movement. McIntyre asserted that the data of Michael Mann, head of Penn State's Earth System Science Center, did not support his conclusions, and that a true graph of temperatures would suggest a cyclical cause of recent warming.
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Man, that's racist!
LOL
No niggard am I.
“There can be no rational “technical reason” why they should no longer correlate; trees didn’t evolve a new growth pattern in 1980. “
I’m sure global warming is to blame for it. In fact, the lack of correlation probably proves CO2 global warming.
Now you're giving me the niggles. Stop that.
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