Sentences with phrase «about hockeysticks»

Discussions about hockeysticks and feedbacks are all very interesting, but they are not the crux of why there is a such a heated and politicized debate about climate change.

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What you apparently don't know about the history of the great hockeystick debate would fill volumes.

Most people don't understand the details of atmospheric physics or principal components analysis, and so take many statements about «back - radiation» and «hockeysticks» on trust.

(Actually what they were actually arguing about in the film was not all that dissimilar to the hockeystick fiasco, from memory they didn't like the idea that there was «high» intelligence in the distant past, similar to the present day - worth a look anyway).

(3) New thinking on Climategate, Hockeystick graph — and what we can say about the absence of post-1979 warming in the temperature data of the 20th century.

So add up the 100 and probably a hockeystick with about 1 / 10th the relative amplitude in the zig - zags.

Re # 67: Larry, I agree with the point about the emphasis in TAR on the hockeystick.

If it's about science and not personalities, then I need to see a statistically superior reconstruction to the hockeysticks.

This is about whether the hockeystick is important to estimates of climate sensitivity.

I know Judith claims that the hurricane fallout was dealt with well, but would it have come out so well if the issue had arisen * before * the hockeystick controversy came about, or if John Houghton had been photographed standing before a Webster plot of ever increasing hurricane strength?

The (scientific - ish rather than political) hockeystick debate is about the level of confidence in large scale medieval warmth: either we are confident it was not so warm, or we haven't got a clue (I asked Steve McIntyre).