With apologies to the Geico caveman, paleoclimatology isn’t just for grant enabled scientists anymore.
Priceless Climategate email 682: Tom Wigley tells Michael Mann that his son did a tree ring science fair project (using trees behind NCAR) that invalidated the centerpiece of Mann’s work:
‘A few years back, my son Eirik did a tree ring science fair project using trees behind NCAR. He found that widths correlated with both temp and precip. However, temp and precip also correlate. There is much other evidence that it is precip that is the driver, and that the temp/width correlation arises via the temp/precip correlation’
From email 682.txt
h/t to Tom Nelson
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Psalm 8:2
It is truly a tree-ring circus, then.
Anthony…your language is hurtful…you wont be seeing me at the pancake social!
Very amusing! Shame they have no sense or irony
It would be nice if they could write English – “do not be tempted to guild the
lily ” indeed!
There must be an email with Mann demanding ‘direct action.’ Was Eirik expelled?
Boy genius: Trees need water to grow.
We need to get science fair judges we know and trust.
maybe the Piltdown Mann is beyond parody, beyond ridicule………
Oh, the humanity, Tom Wigley has a denier son. I am sure MM must have responded that Tom’s son has not published his results in a buddy-peer review journal, so they must not be true.
Thanks to Tom for digging this tidbit up. He has a slew of interesting finds. Just keep scrolling.
LOL. I just happened to read this email before drifting over to WUWT. But it confirms what botanists have been saying for years, to the deaf ears of Warmists.
Mike should talk to some investigative journalists to see if they can dig up some dirt on these kids.
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Is this the standard kind of IPCC ‘peer’ review? Does that mean Mann is just a big kid on an ego-trip?
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It is getting bad when school science projects refute your magnum opus.
Are you serious? Dr MAnns work does not rely on tree ring data, which at most would allow a backcast of a few hundred years and would not in any way allow a measurement,
REPLY: Oh please, are you a paid shill for Mann or something, because you don’t seem able to assimilate new information? – Anthony
So easy a kid can do it?
A kid did do it.
“John-X says:
December 1, 2011 at 8:47 am
We need to get science fair judges we know and trust”
Damn right! What’s the best way to get the headteacher dismissed for permitting this crap?
I think Eirik (hell of a name you gave your son) may be in some trouble since it appears he published his data and formulas in direct contradiction to standing climate science standards …
This is OT–but Anthony, have you noticed that the nightly lows here in the Sac’to valley (I’m in Sacramento proper) have been running 6-8 degrees below normal for Nov/Dec (and no forecast change in that trend)? Short term ‘weather’, I realize, but that darn set of graphs from Rutan showing cooling have been sticking in my head….Happy Holidays to you and your Team!
Back to the planet of the apes.
Good stuff.
Same email has this statement:
“By chance SB03 may have got some of these precip things right, but we don’t want to give them any way to claim credit.”
Nice colleagues, aren’t they?
Did he respond? I’m very curious what his response would be.
“Global Wetting.”
It doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, does it? Wouldn’t have caught on…
No pun intended.