I have been enjoying climate blogs recently again. Joe Romm provided a bit of entertainment on March 8 with his delightfully uncritical eye to the new Marcott, Shakun, Clark and Mix hockeystick. The paper, which unfortunately was the wishful extension of a thesis (some pun intended), that was debunked by Steve McIntyre before most of us had read the SI. By debunked, I mean really, really trashed. I have seen some weak engineering work but wow, this paper was special. Jean S even noted that there was no blade on the stick in the original thesis but the publication picked up by the press had a dad-would-be-proud blade on it.
So Joe Romm used his considerable intellectual prowess to take the previously non-uptick curve, and accepted its global warming doom result with the full clarity of passion that any scientific mind could project. His title was — Bombshell: Recent…
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