Tag Archives: Steve McIntyre

The Stokes-Kaufman contamination protocol – a ‘sticky’ wicket

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

Over at Climate Audit, Steve McIntyre has found yet another unexplainable inclusion of a hockey stick shaped proxy in the PAGES2K paper. What is most interesting about it is that when you look at the proxy plot panel, it reminds … Continue reading →

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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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FoS CliSci Summary

Posted on April 10, 2013 by

Climate Science Newsletter Crowd sourcing A unique effort to assemble a large number of paleo-temperature graphs on all time scales was made earlier on the WUWT Paleoclimate Reference Page and is now continuing with a recent posting (March 30th). ————————— … Continue reading →

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Hockey Bazinga

Posted on April 7, 2013 by

Jean S (writing at Climate Audit) spots the ultimate fib from Dr. Mann, and the placement of it could not be more hilarious.

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Saturday Silliness: Tamino aka Grant Foster fracks himself

Posted on April 6, 2013 by

People send me stuff. This morning my inbox had a forwarded Twitter item about a Tammy post where supposedly none of what McIntyre discovered about the dating problems in Marcott et al hockey stick “matter”, because “Tamino” has proven otherwise, … 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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McIntyre charges Grant Foster aka “Tamino” with plagiarism in a Dot Earth discussion

Posted on April 1, 2013 by

Reader “pottereaton” submitted this on 2013/04/01 at 2:28 pm McIntyre/Tamino Feud brewing: First McIntyre at DotEarth: Steve McIntyre Toronto, Canada Andy, The ideas in Tamino’s post purporting to explain the Marcott uptick,http://tamino.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/the-tick/ which you praise as “illuminating”, was shamelessly plagiarized … Continue reading →

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The Pitfalls of Data Smoothing

Posted on March 30, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Since we’ve been discussing smoothing in datasets, I thought I’d repost something that Steve McIntyre had graciously allowed me to post on his amazing blog ClimateAudit back in 2008. Let me start by saying that when … Continue reading →

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Dr. Michael Mann, Smooth Operator

Posted on March 30, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach People sometimes ask why I don’t publish in the so-called scientific journals. Here’s a little story about that. Back in 2004, Michael Mann wrote a mathematically naive piece about how to smooth the ends of … 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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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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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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A Conspiracy of One

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

Guest post by Brandon Shollenberger Words cannot describe the humor of Michael Mann’s latest post: As professional climate change deniers become increasingly irrelevant and desperate, so do their distraction and smear efforts. These are mostly just noise in the background … Continue reading →

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Michael Mann’s new ‘trick’, pulled off at the American Geophysical Union Convention – exposed by McIntyre

Posted on March 3, 2013 by

Mike’s AGU Trick By Steve McIntyre There has been considerable recent discussion of the fact that observations have been running cooler than models – see, for example, Lucia’s discussion of IPCC AR5 SOD Figure 9.8 (see here). However, Michael Mann at … Continue reading →

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Friday Funny – ‘Demonizing’ Steve McIntyre

Posted on February 8, 2013 by

Warwick Hughes writes: Thanks to The National Business Review in New Zealand we have this rare article on Steve McIntyre while he was visiting downunder.

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About Climate Audit

Posted on February 2, 2013 by

UPDATE: I’m happy to report that Steve writes in with an update on the tragic accident that sent him to New Zealand. It is good news. – Anthony UPDATE2: Steve asked me to intervene, saying he had issues with the … Continue reading →

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Spiegel’s stunning 8 part series – Climate Catastrophe: A Superstorm for Global Warming Research

Posted on January 23, 2013 by

If you have not read this yet, now is the time. Given what president Obama recently said about skeptics in his inauguration address, I thought this 2010 article would be worth revisiting. In Germany, there’s a revolution going on. That … Continue reading →

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The NYT corrects a global temperature mistake – meanwhile, James Hansen’s ‘Jor-el’ complex worsens

Posted on January 20, 2013 by

First, here is a letter from Harold Ambler which went ignored, he writes: When I found a rather major error in a New York Times article about climate change, I took the trouble to write the editors. I did so … Continue reading →

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