Sentences with phrase «blade of the hockey stick»

To the surprise of everyone who knew about the strong evidence for the little ice age and the medieval climate optimum, the graph showed a nearly constant temperature from the year 1000 until about 150 years ago, when the temperature began to rise abruptly like the blade of a hockey stick.

Mann said the scientific results of the Hockey Stick study weren't problematic, but the graph of the planet's temperature history — which showed a sharp uptick in temperatures during the past century or so, resembling the blade of a hockey stick — was especially easy for a layperson to understand, and this made it threatening to those who were trying to scuttle attempts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions.

Had they used an appropriate technique the size of the blade of the hockey stick would have been smaller,» he said.

Study shows they are still trying to erase the «Medieval Warm Period» From the THE EARTH INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY and the «must make the blade of the hockey stick flat» department comes this claim: Study undercuts idea that «Medieval Warm Period» was global Vikings may not have colonized Greenland in nice weather.

The Marcott study is one that raised a stink because it was an attempt to create yet another «hockey stick» graph in which all of human history — this time, going back 11,000 years — shows a flat line of global temperatures, with only recent decades showing an alarming upward trend like the blade of a hockey stick.

So apparently, because they failed to eliminate the MWP, it» s back to the blade of the hockey stick.

As long as you waffle on the blade of the hockey stick — which had nothing to do with the paper's conclusions and has been noted by the authors as «non-robust» — you're calling into question your own scientific judgement.

The end of the blade of the hockey stick was simply the instrumental temperature record; there was no way that our reconstruction, or any reconstruction for that matter, could either underestimate it or overestimate it.

So the warming they appropriated for the blade of the hockey stick is doubly phony — first for having been inserted into the data set and second for not even being there according to satellites.