One would be hard - pressed, however, to distinguish their new series from the decade - and - a-half-old
Hockey Stick reconstruction of Mann, Bradley and Hughes.»
The media reported on the Mann
hockey stick reconstruction as if it settled the global warming debate, but objective scientists pointed out several crucial flaws that invalidated Mann's claims.
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.
The leaker (s) released an additional 5,000 emails involving the same cast of characters, notably Phil Jones of the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, and Michael Mann, creator of the
discredited Hockey Stick reconstruction of Northern Hemisphere temperature history.
Thus, reliance on such data (as in
the hockey stick reconstruction) «probably causes an underestimation of historic temperatures.»
Do you agree, or not, that
the Hockey Stick reconstructions are flawed?
Re # 166: «Do you agree, or not, that
the Hockey Stick reconstructions are flawed?»