Sentences with phrase «called hockey stick»

The key issue of interest in climate variations over the past 2000 years; this is the heart of the so - called hockey stick debate.

It's called the hockey stick paper: MBH98.

As a young scientist, Mann was very traditional: «I felt that scientists should take an entirely dispassionate view when discussing matters of science,» he wrote in a book called The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars.

The so - called hockey stick graph was intended to prove that the average global temperature in the last 1,000 years was never as high as it is today.

Well, the work that ultimately led to the so - called Hockey Stick — this reconstruction that demonstrates recent warming to be unprecedented in a long time frame — arose from an effort that really had nothing to do with climate change per se.

Secondly, if the potential reader does know anything about the history of the so - called hockey stick debate, that reader will fall into one of two camps:

Track mode turned it into what one Chevy engineer called the hockey stick, a race - style display that shows the engine speed on something that looks like the Nike swoop logo.

This research received wide attention, in part because it was illustrated with a simple graphic, the so - called hockey stick curve, that many interpreted as definitive evidence of anthropogenic causes of recent climate change.

Everyone else on the planet has been calling this a hockey stick, and suddenly you claim that you can't see it?

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«I would call it the perfect storm,» says Mike Stern, the founder of MakeWorks, a new Toronto co-working space where entrepreneurs are busy melding web - connected sensors to pieces of hardware (an Internet - enabled hockey stick that reports back on the speed with which it's handled, among other things).

I call myself an atheit just to get even with all the christians (in all their many varieties) for the times they told me I would go to H E double hockey sticks for not believing in their particular way of doing» the jehovah thing.

I thought of calling these «High Fiber Brownies» but who the H - E-double hockey stick would be salivating for that?!

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That so - called «hockey stick» diagram became a lightning rod in the debate on whether humans were influencing the climate.

A graph of the warming trend largely replicates the so - called «hockey stick,» a previous reconstruction that showed relatively stable temperatures suddenly spiking upward in recent history.

In 2005, Rep. Joe Barton, R - Texas, called Mann before Congress to testify about his now ubiquitous «hockey - stick» graph, showing temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere over the past millennia, with an abrupt spike upward at the end showing human influence on the climate.

Work like that of Oerlemans, or the so called «hockey stick» curve, provide some of the observations used in such studies, but don't replace such studies.

I hope to have another post up on the balance sheet of the Fed, for now, here's the graph that Ron Smith called «the hockey stick.»

It even seems to me that PC # 1 of short - centered red noise is likely to be hockey - stick shaped (especially if one calls step changes a hockey stick).

Actually there's a tendency to get a «step - function» - like shape, but many would still call that a hockey stick.

The chief focus is the original hockey stick, a reconstruction of past temperature for the northern hemisphere covering the last 600 years by Mike Mann, Ray Bradley, and Malcolm Hughes (1998, Nature, 392, 779, doi: 10.1038 / 33859, available here), hereafter called «MBH98» (the reconstruction was later extended back to a thousand years by Mann et al, 1999, or «MBH99»).

It's been repeatedly shown that if you leave out the NOAMER PC1 (or PC4 as you'd call it) altogether you still get a hockey stick.

The validity of the so - called «Hockey Stick» can, of course, neither rest on the strength of MBH98, nor any one reconstruction or model simulation result alone.

As a more extreme example, Judith Curry «summarizes» extensively her thoughts on the Montford Hockey Stick book (comment 168) and then backs off and says none of it was actually her opinion, just her summary, after gavin calls her out on the nonsense (comment here).

«It's the right call on Elon's part,» said Michael Mann, a prominent climate scientist whose claim to fame includes a paper outlining the so - called hockey - stick chart of alarming temperature data.

Many have talked about the sun spot cycle as inactive during the cold part of the bowl or hockey stick — whatever you want to call it.

Have you ever called the so - called scientists who hide data, fake hockey sticks, the so - called administrators of science who tried to dismiss Climategate with fake inquiries, and the so - called scientists whose reaction to Climategate and alarmist fraud in general, is deafening silence?

In a review in Prospect, Matt Ridley, who is no slouch as a science writer himself, calls Andrew Montford's The Hockey Stick Illusion «one of the best science books in years».

Yet many of these are the same people that presumed to question the science behind the so - called «hockey stick» graph published by Mann and others in the journal Nature in 1998.

He's the author of the so - called hockey - stick curve, which showed the dramatic warming of the last century relative to the previous millennium.

As to the «scientific consensus», Mann and his hockey stick have been called «scanty», «sloppy», «sh*tty», «rubbish», «a disgrace to the profession», «dubious», «invalidated» and «just bad science» by his fellow scientists, including the climatologist who came up with the term «global warming» back in the Seventies.

My interest in this case is also heightened by the the fact that there can't be all that many people in the world who have become famous for attacking the hockey stick, and who have recorded a Christmas album called Making Spirits Bright.

M&M argued that the hockey stick relied for its shape on the inclusion of a small set of invalid proxy data (called bristlecone, or «strip - bark» records).

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A version of the so - called hockey - stick diagram, made famous by the author — and attacked by his critics.

It's not a hockey game if one team shows up with hockey sticks and the standard equipment and the other team shows up with whistles and referee's uniforms making questionable calls.

I remember Jean S calling Tamino's defense of the Hockey Stick «garbage».

And Michael Mann, the creator of the hockey stick interpretation of climate change not only calls everyone who disagrees with his viewpoint a denier but

4 Dec 2004 Temperature Variations in Past Centuries and the so - called «Hockey Stick» http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=7

If you like the cut of Professor Stott's jib and you'd like to read more, my book is called «A Disgrace to the Profession»: The World's Scientists - in their Own Words - on Michael E Mann, his Hockey Stick, and their Damage to Science - Volume One.

There is another pretty little graph called MBH98 AKA the hockey stick, this shows us the temp going back about one thousand years and it shows us the temp had not changed one iota until man started to burn fossil fuel, this graph coupled with the CO2 graph clearly showed how mans CO2 emissions where drivng the temps.

At National Review, I quoted Simberg and called Dr Mann «the man behind the fraudulent climate - change «hockey - stick» graph».

Since the IPCC leaned heavily on a novel approach called a «multiproxy climate study» and in particular the «hockey stick graph» of Mann et al., this is where I've focused my attention.

Gavin Schmidt called the op - ed, «idiotic», and Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy, in a reference to the discredited «Hockey Stick Graph» claims the op - ed ignores the graph's depiction of rising temperatures.

Full disclosure: Dr Mann is suing me for calling his «hockey stick» fraudulent, and I'm currently raising funds to push back and shove his stick where the global warming don't shine.

I think this is called progress... Primarily w.r.t. the «hockey stick» since that's the point about «Mann's conclusions» that are specifically targeted in this thread and the North / Wegman reports.

So far the so - called «investigations» of Climategate have all been whitewashes and the same people, including mister Hockey Stick himself, are still in business.

A blogger calling himself Bishop Hill has written a fascinating post on the machinations behind the famous and influential «hockey stick» model of historical trends in global temperatures.

The hockey stick, so - called because global temperatures show a sharp blade - like rise in recent decades, was prominently featured in a 2001 United Nations report that said the burning of fossil fuels is the cause of global warming.