It seems no matter where you look, “hockey stick” shapes pop out of data related to climate. Today, the most extraordinary day in climate science seen in quite some time, was no exception.
And, the day is not over. But honestly I’m too tired to continue. Thus I’m going to present the dataset gleaned today in raw form, but without the final endpoint. There’s no smoothing nor splicing of dissimilar datasets, but granted it is not a complete dataset. I’ll have complete data tomorrow.
Readers will recognize that even though the endpoint has not been established, the conclusion from the graph is clear. We are living in times of extraordinary data, never before seen. It’s accelerating, and worse than we thought.
UPDATE: the final number at midnight Nov 20th, 2009 was 187,988 hits.
Sometimes, there is irony.
In other news, WUWT’s post on the CRU data hack was the number one post on WordPress today, beating out CNN, People magazine, and other well known media outlet posts.
I wish to offer my sincerest thanks to the WUWT moderation team. Thanks also to readers who spread the word and participated in the largest ever thread.
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Quango72 “…list of the more common acronyms…”
Steve McIntyre provides a list of acronyms common on climate related sites:
http://climateaudit101.wikispot.org/Glossary_of_Acronyms
For general purpose use, this is a handy site to put in your favorites list:
http://www.acronymfinder.com/
As is this one (I just used it to find out what ‘prats’ means):
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
Leon Brozyna (11:27:53) : traffic through the roof
What we need to do is to get rid of the previous peaks and the blade of the hockey stick would be so much more prominent.
Jon Adams: “…Mann, Hansen, et al deserve life sentences and all who went along with the fraud at least deserve time in prison and to be stripped of scientific credentials and degrees.”
So nothing new there, then. That said, you have overlooked my important point that it is too soon for climate sceptics to celebrate. Whatever these emails may reveal about the personal views and behaviour of some climate scientists, they do not amount to evidence of fraud and corruption.
We have seen premature sceptic celebrations before: Monckton’s APS item; the Theon declaration; the EPA “Carbongate”; the Yamal series, all of which were going to bring AGW to its knees, blow it out of the water, turn the tide etc. None of these things happened.
Of course, this leak is bigger than anything before, but to date we have seen no smoking guns that definitively point to fraud and corruption. It should also be remembered that climate sceptics have been crying fraud for a long time, and this no doubt accounts for some of the caution displayed by the mainstream media over the latest allegations.
The more feverish the excitement over this event, the greater the disappointment when the excitement peters out.
Henry Galt: “What science is there to be ‘undermined’ exactly?”
Try IPCC reports, which cite a wide range of evidence from a number of scientific disciplines.
Congratulations Anthony….I am fully onside. See what can happen with a balanced view?
Wow, this story hockeysticked my blog, which is more about the “hacking” side of the story rather than the “global warming” side.
http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2009/11/hacker-exposes-global-warming.html