Karly... Regardless of the actual flaws in Mr Steel's argument, and his failure to show that his CSI considerations can produce anything like a hockey -
stick shaped temperature profile, this statement alone makes it impossible for me to take Mr Steel seriously.
Not exact matches
The hockey
stick -
shape temperature plot that shows modern climate considerably warmer than past climate has been verified by many scientists using different methodologies (PCA, CPS, EIV, isotopic analysis, & direct T measurements).
My still unanswered question is why does the hockey
stick shape of Earth
temperatures show up in a chart of the Solar magnetic flux?
The animation zooms in on the graph of
temperatures, often times referred to as the Hockey
Stick for its distinctive
shape, and shows the granular changes over time.
Perhaps you'll join Montford in complaining that hockey -
stick shaped proxies dominate reconstructions because they correlate well with
temperature.
My still unanswered question is why does the hockey
stick shape of Earth
temperatures show up in a chart of the Solar magnetic flux?
If there has ever been a question about whether the «hockey
stick»
shape of Northern Hemisphere
temperatures extends to at least some areas of the Southern Hemisphere, this record provides a decisive and positive answer.
If (1) you have a few hockey
stick shaped series in a smallish data set which otherwise is cancelling noise, and (2) then re-scale your average to a
temperature scale in the calibration period, you can get hockey
stick shaped «reconstructions».
The original hockey -
stick analysis plotted reconstructed Northern Hemisphere mean
temperature variations since 1400 and found that since 1900,
temperatures have increased to give the graph its distinctive
shape (Nature 1998, 392, 779 - 787).
In fact, Marohasy points out that a lack of rising
temperatures for recent decades is so common in paleoclimate reconstructions that tendentious climate scientists have necessarily added heavily adjusted, hockey -
stick -
shaped instrumental records (e.g., from NASA GISS, HadCRUT) on to the end of the trend so as to maintain the visualization of an ongoing dangerous warming.
Because the graph showed only minor
temperature changes before the industrial age and then an upward slant — the hockey -
stick shape — it became an oft - cited argument that human activity was raising
temperatures.
«Mann and his co-authors created a
temperature reconstruction of the past 1,000 years (of the northern hemisphere) which had the
shape of a «hockey
stick.»
During 2017, there were 150 graphs from 122 scientific papers published in peer - reviewed journals that indicated modern
temperatures are not unprecedented, unusual, or hockey -
stick -
shaped — nor do they fall outside the range of natural variability.
January 2018... in 122 (2017) scientific papers Image Source: Loisel et al., 201 2017: 150 Graphs, 122 Scientific Papers In the last 12 months, 150 graphs from 122 peer - reviewed scientific papers have been published that undermine the popularized conception of a slowly cooling Earth
temperature history followed by a dramatic hockey -
stick -
shaped uptick, or an especially unusual global - scale warming during modern times.
He (McIntyre) was able to demonstrate that the way they had extracted the
temperature signal from the tree ring records was biased so as to choose hockey -
stick shaped graphs in preference to other
shapes... He also showed that the appearance of the graph was due solely to the use of an estimate of historic
temperatures based on tree rings from bristlecone pines, a species that was known to be problematic for this kind of reconstruction.
C: increase in atmospheric CO2 from pre-industrial to present is anthropogenic (D / A) S: best guess for likely climate sensitivity (NUM) s: 2 - sigma range of S (NUM) a: ocean acidification will be a problem (D / A) L: expected sea level rise by 2100 in cm (all contributions)(NUM) B: climate change will be beneficial (D / A) R: CO2 emissions need to be reduced drastically by 2050 (D / A) T: technical advances will take care of any problems (D / A) r: the 20th century global
temperature record is reliable (D / A) H: over the last 1000 years global
temperature was hockey
stick shaped (D / A) D: data has been intentionally distorted by scientist to support the idea of anthropogenic climate change (D / A) g: the CRU - mails are important for the science (D / A) G: the CRU - mails are important otherwise (D / A)
I consider the 20th century
temperature record to be reliable, roughly hockey
stick shaped over the last 1000 years and there has been no significant data manipulation.
Just within the last 5 months, 58 more papers and 80 new graphs have been published that continue to undermine the popularized conception of a slowly cooling Earth
temperature history followed by a dramatic hockey -
stick -
shaped uptick, or an especially unusual global - scale warming during modern times.
«A further aspect of this critique is that the single - bladed hockey
stick shape in proxy PC summaries for North America is carried disproportionately by a relative small subset (15) of proxy records derived from bristlecone / foxtail pines in the western United States, which the authors [MM] mention as being subject to question in the literature as local / regional
temperature proxies after approximately 1850.
There is nothing to cite that the Natural Climate Oscillation is being altered by simplistic productions of «
temperature plots» no matter HOW MANY supposed proxies are proffered and there is no value at all in wasting more time on the «hockey
stick debacle», time to realise that the «hockey plot» is not proffering any worthwhile information on ANY Real process, and its entire «
shape» was defined NOT by «data» but by an attitude of predetermination within the group of «experimenters».
Their two main results are a confirmation that current global surface
temperatures are hotter than at any time in the past 1,400 years (the general «hockey
stick»
shape, as shown in Figure 1), and that while the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and Little Ice Age (LIA) are clearly visible events in their reconstruction, they were not globally synchronized events.
If tree - ring
temperature reconstructions have the effect of ironing out peaks and valleys — and you seem to agree they do — then appending an instrument record that happens to correspond to a peak, will always yield a hockey
stick shape.
The graph got its name because its
shape resembles a hockey
stick, with the blade end representing the sharp
temperature rise over recent years.
I do not think there is any convincing evidence to support a hockey
stick shape for global
temperature anomalies of the past 1000 - 2000 years, with any kind of confidence.
I've got eight other graphs on the DeSmog Blog, none of which has been questioned in the least, all showing a hockey
stick shape in the
temperature from 1,000 years ago to today, and all of them showing a pretty similar — the idea that there was a Medieval Warming Period during which the
temperature was higher than it is now is, that is like, flagrantly incorrect is the nicest way that I can say it.
During 2017, there were 150 graphs from 122 scientific papers published in peer - reviewed journals indicating modern
temperatures are not unprecedented, unusual, or hockey -
stick -
shaped — nor do they fall outside the range of natural variability.
Similarly, Mcintyre's body of work on hockey
stick would be a stronger example of the failure of conventional scientific processes if subsequent research did not continually reproduce the same general
shape of Holocene
temperatures.
Dr. Mann's reconstruction of global
temperatures shows a distinct pattern shaped like a hockey stick: Temperatures stayed level for centuries, with a sudden upturn during rec
temperatures shows a distinct pattern
shaped like a hockey
stick:
Temperatures stayed level for centuries, with a sudden upturn during rec
Temperatures stayed level for centuries, with a sudden upturn during recent decades.
The resulting reconstruction showed a rise in
temperature in the medieval period, thus eliminating the hockey
stick shape.
In this reconstruction, the bristlecone pine hockey -
stick shows up as the PC4 (accounting for less than 8 percent of the North American network explained variance rather than 38 percent in the incorrect MBH98 calculation) and still imparts a hockey -
stick shape to the whole NH
temperature reconstruction.
The basis for selection, obviously, was not whether trees exhibited a hockey
stick shape or not; in cases where there are enough instrumental data, the criterion is whether they correlate well to that — too bad the
temperature data show warming over the 20th century, I suppose.
Despite having no trend in the underlying proxies the MBH98 method regularly produces hockey
stick -
shaped PC1 s which then fit neatly against the
temperature data, despite having, in principle, zero explanatory power.
And it was just one in a long series of threats I've received since the late 1990s, when my research illustrated the unprecedented nature of global warming, producing an upward - trending
temperature curve whose
shape has been likened to a hockey
stick.
«The simulations nearly always yielded PC1s with a hockey
stick shape, some of which bore a quite remarkable similarity to the actual MBH98
temperature reconstruction — as shown by the example in Figure 1.»
The reason is that the
temperature trend itself is hockey
stick shaped.
In fact most all of the proxies which actually show the hockey -
stick shape do so for reasons not particularly related to
temperature increases.
And, in fact, when one removes the black line from measured
temperatures and looks at only proxies, the hockey
stick shape goes away:
Advocates deemed the conglomeration of proxy
temperature data from 7 land regions as scientific confirmation of the notorious hockey -
stick -
shaped temperature -LSB-...]