Joe Romm is sooo entertaining these days. Yesterday, when I pointed out to him McIntyre’s takedown of Marcott et al, he came to the immediate conclusion that I was an “instrumental record denier”, apparently sent that assertion to Mike Mann, who then a few minutes later made it a “News Alert” on his Twitter feed, only to be forced to retract it later.
Today, denying the existence of the issues that essentially falsify the Marcott et al paper, while at the same time making sure his readers have absolutely no link to the contrary findings, or even to name “he who must not be named” lest readers might be tempted to Google it, Romm has a new post up, pushing yet again his hilarious projection of the future:
Like a dog playing fetch, he only sees the stick, runs after it, and completely misses the fact that the small blue uptick upon which he bases his projection premise has been shown to be nothing more than an artifact of the shoddy science (removal of some unfavorable proxies) that somehow made it past peer review.
I have decided that this insistence on seeing sticks where there are none needs a label, and here’s what I have decided upon. “stickophrenia”. Here’s the definition:
Stickophrenia is one of the most chronic (long-lasting) and disabling of climate science disorders. People with stickophrenia see hockey sticks where none exist, and the sticks can be made up of just about any data on hand. It is a climate science disorder that causes easily identifiable symptoms such as:
- Hockey Hallucinations (seeing sticks that don’t exist)
- Data Delusions (bizarre thoughts of the data producing hockey sticks, where the data can’t possibly produce one)
- Disordered thinking, to the point of arranging data to make sticks to satisfy urges
- Social media bloviation
- Denial of contrary science, opinions, and data that don’t show hockey sticks
It would be tempting to label Romm as “patient zero” but that honor really should go to Mike Mann.
Romm in his article says we have no social media traction, but let’s see how far “stickophrenia” can go.
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How can we get this phrase and definition up on wikipedia?
[snip – yeah let’s not project beyond the scope, shall we? – Anthony]
HenryP, It’s dead easy to create a page on wiki. The hard part is getting it past it’s moderators who tend to be of the AGW bent.
Hard to tell given the scale of the graph, but it appears that Uncle Joe predicts around a seven degree C temperature increase over the next century or so, maybe less. Given the straight shape of the line, we should therefore see about a 7/10 degree gain over the next decade. Not going to happen, but no amount of falsification can shake the faith of true believers in Mann-made “climate change”. No lie too big for acolytes & apostles of the anti-human faith.
As for the instrument record, there is indeed reason to doubt it, given the siting failures you have found & the blatant “adjustment” of at least land station records. When government pays for “research”, government gets the findings it wants.
Warmists always do have a hold of the wrong end of the (hokey) stick.
At least the slope of the line means we have only weeks to verify the prediction! We should be boiling by next week or so!
Since this disorder originated in the mind of the Mann, maybe it should be termed: SticksoMannian Syndrome.
Romm better be careful. Turn the graph on its side, and you have a picture of a gun. And we know that will get you kicked out of school.
Romm writes: “They are arguing that the warming of the past century the authors found in their proxy records is in error. What makes this so head-exploding is that the uptick just happens to match the uptick in the heavily documented and independently verified instrumental record. So the disinformers are spending most of their time attacking the one part of the paper we know is unequivocally is true. That is the quintessence of anti-science.”
This is a game changer in that they finally unravelled in a way that renders them publically ridiculous in a way lay readers can clearly understand, and it dragged the whole hockey stick industry into it. The entire left wing has tied its wagons to this beast.
Anthony says: Romm in his article says we have no social media traction, but let’s see how far “stickophrenia” can go.
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We can fix that. Want for me to write you some twitterbots? :>
Firstly I would consider the blue uptick suspect because, even at the large time scale here, is not natural. To then continue that vertically could be considered the act of a child told to ”continue that nice blue line” by a stupid teacher.
Any study considering past climate must account for diverging accuracies the further back you go. A shorter time period would have shown (?) the RWP, MWP, LIA, far more clearly. If I was cynical I would have thought that the choice of time period was to confuse and distort the data, assuming the data was correct in the first place.
Don’t call it science. It’s shody analysis of shody data.
what about Climate Cult Syndrome, where individuals with an unblemished past go ga-ga after becoming enamoured of Michael Mann and friends? Lovelock, Attenborough and recently Phil Plait are sad examples, whilst Revkin sounds almost cured of the illness.
I saw a home made rail buggy yesterday. It had a hockey stick taped to it.
I posted this in another thread, but it seems more appropriate here:
The uptick in the Hockey Stick is the nervous tic of the climate science shtick.
Curses, foiled again. It is a conspiracy. Now they are out to make hockey sticks obsolete! I am sorry but that’s no hockey stick, it just isn’t. Something Pythagorean… I don’t know.
Much as in the Allegory of the Cave I think these must be stickmann drawings from a cave of their own poorly illuminated design.
Would one who has “stickophrenia” be considered
a “stickophreniac” ?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Romm is more akin to Typhoid Mary.
Well the NHL and the players union settled so nobody needs “The Hockey Team” any more. There is real hockey to be watched.
” Jimmy Haigh. says: March 19, 2013 at 6:48 am
Warmists always do have a hold of the wrong end of the (hockey) stick.”
Good one Jimmy. Made me laugh.
ask not what your stick can do for you; ask what you can do for your stick
NikFromNYC says:
March 19, 2013 at 6:55 am
Nice work, Nik. In this quotation, Romm remains confused between the instrumental record and the bogus paleo record. This raises another question. Is Mann still defending his hockey stick? I get the impression that Mann and Romm are looking to some chart that has the shape of a hockey stick and they are calling it the instrumental record.
[snip again, let’s not project beyond the scope – Anthony]
“Stick-zophrenia” “Stikzophrenia” “Stixophrenia” (Stiksophrenic, Stixophrenic, etc.)
Better rhymes with that other word I think you’re trying to tie this to. Just a thought…
How about Manniacal Neurosis?