Global Warming: Scoring With Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick
GLOBAL warming scientists and warmists are never wrong - and Michael Mann was most certainly not ever wrong about the Hockey Stick theory of global warming, which was, er, wrong:
As EU Ref notes:
When Michael Mann delivers his latest attempt to prove his “hockey stick”, cheer-leaders such as Richard Black, Environment correspondent for the BBC News website, roll over, wave their legs in the air and utter admiring gurgles, offering the immortal phrase: “A new study by climate scientists behind the controversial 1998 ‘hockey stick’ graph suggests their earlier analysis was broadly correct.”
Black clearly has neither the wit nor integrity to postulate that a so-called scientist who is already a three-time loser is not going to get it right on his fourth attempt and that, in pursuit of his mystic goal of proving that the world is warmer now than it has ever been – at least, in the last 1300 years – that he might be a tad biased.
Not that Black is alone of course. The warmist groupies on The Daily Telegraph are quick to follow in the wake of the Beeb, pronouncing: “Past decade hottest for 1300 years in northern hemisphere”, trotting out the unexpurgated doctrine of the sainted Mann, who sits at the right hand of Gore.
Michael Mann - the director of Heat?
September 4th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Back in 2006 the US National Academy of Sciences was asked by the US Congress to find an answer to what period was the warmest of the past millennium. They looked at seven different reconstructions of the past 1100 years of climate, from 900 to 2000. Each of these studies used different methods, and each showed the same conclusion as the Mann Hockey Stick.
The people who tried to discredit it looked for anything, no matter how small, that could be tarnished so as to claim the whole thing was tarnished. Mann is respected in his field, if he’s gone back to this again I imagine he’s pretty confident about his results this time round.
September 22nd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
A complete expose of the “hockey stick” affair can be read here:
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/what_hockey_stick.html