Climate science perversion (aka 'hockey stick' scamming) has become insidious, spreading from institution to institution - the latest university to have its reputation needlessly dragged through the odorous climate hockey stick fecal mess is Oregon State...will agenda-driven academia ever clean up their awful perversion of science? Naaah...
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Since our last post about the now infamous Marcott et al. study, a plethora of articles have been written building on the exposé of this hockey stick statistical perversion.
Some of the more recent ones include:
"The Marcott gong show – before in the unquestioning press and after the blogosphere review as told by Ross McKitrick"
"When this became public, the Marcott team promised to clear matters up with an online FAQ. It finally appeared over the weekend, and contains a remarkable admission: “[The] 20th-century portion of our paleotemperature stack is not statistically robust, cannot be considered representative of global temperature changes, and therefore is not the basis of any of our conclusions.”"
"Q. Why did realclimate publish the Marcott FAQ on Easter Sunday?
A. Because if they’d waited until Monday, everyone would have thought it was an April Fools’ joke."
"However, here I document the gross misrepresentation of the findings of a recent scientific paper via press release which appears to skirt awfully close to crossing the line into research misconduct, as defined by the NRC. I recommend steps to fix this mess, saving face for all involved, and a chance for this small part of the climate community to take a step back toward unambiguous scientific integrity...The paper I refer to is by Marcott et al. 2013, published recently in Science."
"But Mann's hockey stick came under withering fire for its dodgy statistical methods and selective use of data and has since been pretty much abandoned. But that hasn't kept the warmists from trying again, this time with a new graph, named after lead study author Shaun Marcott, purporting to show global temperatures over the past 11,300 years, this time with a new, even bigger "blade" to the hockey stick showing the supposed upward thrust of temperatures in the past 100 years...Except that the whole thing is dissolving in another fiasco."
"This appears to be one more in a long series of frauds and hoaxes perpetrated by climate alarmists. This one unravelled faster than most; nevertheless, it served its purpose. Newspapers and magazines around the world trumpeted Marcott's findings, and reproduced his hockey stick graph, as though it were solid evidence of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming. Now the question is, will they leave their readers with this false impression, or will they publicize the fact that they were had, once again, by climate alarmists?"
"In other words, all that stuff about having the highest temperatures for millennia and about eye-popping warming over the past 100 years appears to have no basis in the paper’s actual temperature reconstruction."
Regarding the above image of those Marcott et al proxies used in their study:
"Since the modern period by almost everyone is considered to be post 1950, only 9 of the 73 [Marcott et al] proxies contain any data that can be relevant to the global warming issue. Right away that concerned me, but when I looked at the data for those 9 proxies something very interesting became apparent...What is most interesting about all of these proxies is that none of them show the warming result the paper ended up with. Not a single one."