‘Hockey stick’ graph was exaggerated:
The “hockey stick” was used to warn the world of the threat of global warming by numerous individuals and organisations, including Al Gore in his oscar-winning film an Inconvenient Truth and UN body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Sonicfrog who alerted me to this article has more:
The head of the Royal Statistical Society Professor David Hand adds weight to Steve McIntyre’s long held assertion that the infamous Hockey Stick is statistically flawed!
In my experience reading The Daily Telegraph, their summaries tend to leave out very important details that they’re unable to gloss over in the main article.
… And then Serenity goes and glosses over more details by leaving details out. Here is the rest of the article:
… And thus, not as scary.
So you have the head of the Royal Statistical Society saying that the stats were misused, and you have an underling of Hand and Mann who says nah, all is OK in the world of hockey sticks. The science seems very… unsettled.
Oxburgh did not really delve into the details of the scientific question raised by the more level headed skeptics, so what else do you expect the results to be. I know you won’t do it, but I would suggest that you read Steve Mc’s response to some of the points in the report. And yes, I’ve already read Real Climates posts on this.
Dan, please delete the first version of this post. I screwed up the blockquotes.
Tanned-O to the AGW rescue in three…. two…. two and three-quarters……..
The liberal reaction to this news will be the same as it was when CBS was proven to be using forged documents to slander President Bush, the same as their reaction ALWAYS is when the facts prove them wrong: “The facts may be wrong, but the narrative is right”
I still think liberals should ‘pretend” the world is coming to an end and start conserving, not flying ,not driving, not washing their clothes, not cutting their lawns, using bicycles, not using toilet paper etc.
liberals can still act like the data wasn’t faked. They can act like they are going to save us all.
Go ahead. Just start.
Al Gore has nothing to say. He has always refused to debate his critics.
Gene, I believe the best line comes from professor reynolds: I will believe it [Global warming/Climate change/whatever name they give it next weeek] when the people supporting act like it’s a crisis.
here’s a quick thought: On manhatten, all the news reporters from CNN, ABC, NBC, NYT, etc. et. al. all worry about climate change…..why don’t they leave manahatten island if they think it is true?
They don’t, so why should the general public?
Game, set, match.