Category Archives: Marcott et al proxy paper

These guys could use some help with slapstick

Posted on April 18, 2013 by

People send me stuff. Robert Sheaffer sent part of a blog post titled: The “hockey stick” slaps back  by Donald Prothero After reading it, this is what I mailed back: About these ads

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Those who don’t learn from Yamal, are condemned to repeat it – Marcott’s YAD061

Posted on April 11, 2013 by

You’d think academics in the upside down Mann climate proxy world would pay attention, and not repeat the same mistakes of the past. Apparently not. WUWT readers surely recall the Yamal YAD06 (The most influential tree in the world) and … Continue reading →

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Marcott – 3 spikes and you are out

Posted on April 7, 2013 by

Guest post by Nancy Green Tamino claims he has added 3 spikes to the Marcott et al proxy data and the Marcott et al process detects them. Source: http://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/many_vs_unpert.jpg This, he then proposes, is proof that there are no 20th … Continue reading →

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Questions for Marcott et al? – submit them here

Posted on April 6, 2013 by

Skiphil writes: Andy Revkin of Dot Earth/NY Times blog is inviting questions to be submitted to the authors of Marcott et al. (2013). Since Revkin is one of the only journalists who might have a chance of getting the study … Continue reading →

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Proxy spikes: The missed message in Marcott et al

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

Story submitted by WUWT reader Nancy Green There is a message in Marcott that I think many have missed. Marcott tells us almost nothing about how the past compares with today, because of the resolution problem. Marcott recognizes this in … Continue reading →

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The Marcott gong show – before in the unquestioning press and after the blogosphere review as told by Ross McKitrick

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

Just last month, these were the claims: We’re screwed: 11,000 years’ worth of ­climate data prove it.  It’s among the most compelling bits of proof out there that human beings are behind global warming, and as such has become a … Continue reading →

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Introducing the anti-hockey stick – ‘The Scythe”

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

We already are well familiar with the shape of the hockey stick, so familiar in fact it has become an icon. Josh writes: It has already been concluded by Marcott et al that their results should now show no modern … Continue reading →

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Monday Mirthiness bonus edition: reflections

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear.

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Well said – the central issue to Marcott et al

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

I’m reminded of this quote: “No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.” ― James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name This below pretty much says it all.

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Monday Mirthiness – not the mod squad

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

Josh writes: The Marcott FAQ at Real Climate has been causing comment over the Easter weekend, particularly at Climate Audit. Roger Pielke Jr also has an excellent post, aptly titled Fixing the Marcott Mess in Climate Science.

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Quote of the week – ‘bad eggs’ in the Marcott et al non-stick omelete recipe

Posted on March 31, 2013 by

This is a scathing and revealing comment from another scientist regarding the Marcott et al affair. The context of it all has an odor of hydrogen sulfide about it.

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Marcott issues a FAQ on their paper

Posted on March 31, 2013 by

This is from Real Climate, who played the “he who must not be named” game again in not pointing out criticisms. Gavin dissapoints. UPDATE: McIntyre responded earlier today with The Marcott Filibuster Marcott et al have posted their long-promised FAQ at … Continue reading →

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Where’s the hockey stick? The ‘Marcott 9′ show no warming past 1950

Posted on March 26, 2013 by

More on the Marcott et al “hockey stick”. All of the ‘Marcott 9′ had altered dates. Guest post by John Kehr While it took me a while to get the time together to write an article about the Marcott paper, … Continue reading →

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Uh oh, there be grafting in Marcott et al

Posted on March 19, 2013 by

Skiphil writes in comments: “…there are some interesting developments in the “Marcott curve” which puts more of the circus in jeopardy. In addition to a new post on CA detailing changes in the core top record, there is this very … Continue reading →

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Monday Mirthiness – Watch the genesis (and retraction) of a smear

Posted on March 18, 2013 by

This is hilarious, I finally got a retraction out of Dr. Michael Mann. The AGW proponents must be reeling from McIntyre’s takedown of Marcott et al, because I watched the most hilarious smear genesis unfold this morning a few minutes … Continue reading →

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Real Climate response to McIntyre’s Marcott stick busting

Posted on March 18, 2013 by

Many people have been wondering what sort of response would be coming now that Steve has conclusively shown that the Marcott et al “hockey stick” is nothing more than an artifact of what appears to be the worst case of … Continue reading →

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McIntyre finds the Marcott ‘trick’ – How long before Science has to retract Marcott et al?

Posted on March 16, 2013 by

Steve McIntyre has made what I can only describe as a stunning discovery as to why there is a sharp uptick in the main Marcott et al graph being touted by the media from its publication in Science. It seems … Continue reading →

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Marcott’s uptick – a result of proxy sign inconsistency

Posted on March 16, 2013 by

Shades of upside down Tiljander. McIntyre is delving further into the Marcott proxy issue and it looks almost certain now there’s a statistical processing error (selection bias). Steve McIntyre writes: In the graphic below, I’ve plotted Marcott’s NHX reconstruction against … Continue reading →

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Tick, tick, tick – how long will the new Marcott et al hockey stick survive?

Posted on March 15, 2013 by

Steve McIntyre writes of the curious uptick in the 20th century, which doesn’t seem to be rooted in reality, or to have been in Marcott’s PhD thesis: While one expects a difference between NHX and SHX in the Holocene, the … Continue reading →

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Marcott’s hockey stick uptick mystery – it didn’t used to be there

Posted on March 14, 2013 by

At Climate Audit, Something odd has been discovered about the provenance of the work associate with the Marcott et al paper. It seems that the sharp uptick wasn’t in the thesis paper Marcott defended for his PhD, but is in … Continue reading →

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