Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Michael Mann "Hockey Stick" Update: Now Definitively Established To Be Fraud — Manhattan Contrarian

Michael Mann "Hockey Stick" Update: Now Definitively Established To Be Fraud — Manhattan Contrarian
"The Michael Mann “Hockey Stick” is suddenly back in the news.
It’s been so long since we have heard from it, do you even remember what it is?
The “Hockey Stick” is the graph that took the world of climate science by storm back in 1998.
...The claimed “new statistical approach,” when applied to a group of temperature “proxies” that included tree ring samples and lake bed sediments, yielded a graph — quickly labeled the “Hockey Stick” — that was the perfect icon to sell global warming fear to the public.
The graph showed world temperatures essentially flat or slightly declining for 900+ years (the shaft of the hockey stick), and then shooting up dramatically during the 20th century era of human carbon dioxide.
..Now that is seriously scary! 
The Medieval Warm period — an era between the years of about 1000 and 1300 once generally accepted to have had temperatures warmer than the present — had disappeared. 
The clear implication was that the earth had had a benign and unchanging climate for about a thousand years, and now humans had entered the picture with their fossil fuels and were rapidly destabilizing the situation..."
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