The word "spurious" means something that is not genuine or authentic. It refers to something that is false or fake, often used to describe information, claims, or objects that are deceitful or misleading. Full definition
This is a very serious misunderstanding of the likely importance of spurious correlation in dendroclimatology, one that has been repeated over and over at various blogs. (oprj.net)
This had it's genesis in a «comment» on my 2009 paper on spurious correlations in work by McKitrick and Michaels and separately, de Laat and Maurelis. (realclimate.org)
Unless this is studied and accounted for volcanoes are likely to result in spurious warming «corrections». (climateaudit.org)