In contrast to the claims of the Mann et al "Hockey Stick", practically all proxy records around the world show large scale multi-decadal and century-scale climatic variation. As another example, here are some of the results from a study by Tyson, Holmgren et al (2000,2001) of Lake Naivasha in Kenya and a well documented stalagmite […]
It’s "interesting times" at realclimate.org where the authors feel the need suddenly to check their sources and the provenance of data in a way that they clearly didn’t before, and advise caution when the latest scare stories of global warming come in. For students of psychology, this points to an internal conflict of the psyche […]
One of the fun parts about finding the Hockey Stick is the many guises in which it appears. If you didn’t know what you were looking at, you could easily miss the significance of the information provided for you by people in authority. Today’s scientific authority is the government of New Zealand.
The Wall Street Journal published this editorial last Friday, on the Hockey Stick controversy and the work of Steve McIntyre: Hockey Stick on Ice Politicizing the science of global warming. Friday, February 18, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST On Wednesday National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman canceled the season, and we guess that’s a loss. But […]
“Hagiography” according to Wordnet, at Princeton University means “a biography that idealizes or idolizes the person (especially a person who is a saint)”. Now that you know this, try reading here this Scientific American article written by David Appell about Michael Mann, creator of the Hockey Stick. I’ve quite a strong stomach, but it’s difficult […]
A new profile of Michael Mann appears in the March edition of Scientific American (on the grounds that you can never have too many profiles) Update: the author of the profile is David Appell. Isn’t it a small world? You’ll have to pay real money to see all of it, but here’s a rather revealing […]
A quick post to say that the weblog has been mentioned in comments in slashdot. Prepare to repel boarders! I was a little unsure as to whether to post an article on slashdot, as I was afraid that being "slashdotted" would use up the bandwidth we’re allowed for the next year…this might be a little […]
While Steve McIntyre gets his visage on international TV (and, so rumors say, have his front door widened), here on the weblog we can still play our game of "Spot the Hockey Stick", the temperature reconstruction that, according to William Connelley, was made into a totem of global warming by skeptics and not by the multi-billion […]
Another instalment of our favorite game. This time it’s from the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, which was published with big fanfare and a slew of scary headlines and quotations in October 2004. The documents are stowed in the AMAP documents database and contain some of the slickest, glossiest presentations that I can remember. They’ve obviously got […]
Well, almost… (if you follow me). There’s a new piece of open source software for Web browsers called "Site Bar" which you can find at this link If you install it (and it’s as simple as clicking a link) you’ll get a sidebar full of links to interesting sites. If you select "Sience" then you’ll […]
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WSJ: Hockey Stick "on ice"
The Wall Street Journal published this editorial last Friday, on the Hockey Stick controversy and the work of Steve McIntyre: Hockey Stick on Ice Politicizing the science of global warming. Friday, February 18, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST On Wednesday National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman canceled the season, and we guess that’s a loss. But […]