Any manager knows the benefits of hockey stick shaped graphs when the bad things happen 40 or 50 years in the future so you can be safely retired. (climate-skeptic.com)
The Yang Chinese composite, after the Mann PC1 and Yamal, had the third - largest hockey stick shape of the proxies illustrated in the IPCC AR4 spaghetti graph. (climateaudit.org)
Re: Rob Wilson (# 54), Rob — the reason this matters is that bcp are a key ingredient in hockey stick reconstructions, and SM has shown that the particular bcp used are stripbark AND the Yamal few good men (a second key series used in multiple recons with hockey stick shapes) exhibit a pattern of growth very similar to a damage response. (climateaudit.org)