My Favorite Defense of Mr Mann
“Mann’s work has been proven time and time again to not be fraudulent because it has been reproduced by others.”.
My Usual reply:
Why, Yes! It has been reproduced…BUT the question is – Why would you want to reproduce it?
Ha ha ha ha 🙂
Following yesterday’s first look at emails from the 2 year effort to get NOAA to release emails from FOIA requests, where we learn that some scientists felt ‘Hit on the head with a hockey stick’ and that “The paleodata always got a lot more attention from the general public than it deserved.”.
There’s a great article today at SPPI today Michael Mann — the ghost of climate past which summarizes the whole hockey stick affair quite well. It draws heavily on a post from May of this year on PJ Media by Rand Simberg titled The Death of the Hockey Stick?
In that post I found this little nugget below from December 2009, one that I apparently missed in the furor immediately following Climategate1. I’m now correcting that oversight.
What is it? It’s the hockey stick recreated in Excel, using proxy data and instrumental data freely available on the…
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The Delinquent Teenager
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