This website is different in that Steve does have published work available, along with unpublished “in-progress” work. Steve’s work rises above speculation. He provides reasoning for why various multi-proxy studies (and their data sets) are problematic.

Steve needs no cheerleading…and that is not my intent with this post. Spend enough time here and you’ll find the only speculation is with regard to the motives of the Hockey Team to withold data and methods, make ad hominem attacks, and refuse to answer simple, direct questions regarding their “research.”

…In recent years, most cosmologists have assumed dark matter to be “cold” – that the particles of which it is made moved around relatively slowly.

However, the astronomers calculated that they moved at about six miles per second, giving it a “temperature” higher than the surface of the Sun. If it was made of hydrogen atoms, dark matter would be as hot as 10,000 C. Thanks to its unusual nature, it has a high temperature caused by the excited movement of its particles but no heat.

Prof Gilmore added: “The strange thing about dark matter is that it has temperature but doesn’t give off radiation. It is a different form of matter not made of the same stuff as ordinary matter that consists of protons and neutrons, and has no charge.”

The researchers calculated that while ordinary matter, such as that found on Earth, contains some 1023 particles per cubic cm, dark matter contains only one third of a particle in the same volume.

The particles cannot be packed together more tightly than the equivalent of four atoms of hydrogen per cubic cm of space. This low density means the smallest possible volume of dark matter is a cube measuring 1,000 light years along each side containing 13 million times as much mass as the Sun….

John,

all excellent points by I regard it as religion rather than science, so the usual checks and balances would not apply. Notice how all the extra commentary are worded as “awesome” etc. Everyone agrees with it except for the renegades who publish in IEEE (plasma guys).

Cosmologists and astronomers regard themselves as the creme de la creme of science, dealing with creation and the big bang, and would regard our reactions as impertinence on our part. How dare we question their authority!

You can’t disprove the theory because of its deductional nature. They start off with one core assumption – the only force in the cosmos is gravity, and from that develop mathematically what we can read in your initial post # 28.

But why publicise it before publication? Indeed, or is it already slated for publication and its ready for printing and this is an advance PR campaign.

I suspect funding is the issue and they want maximum exposure now, not after publication when, I guess, funding decisions have been made.

Considering the kit they use (climate guys just need a slightly bigger computer) these guys would have rather large capex requirements.