Dr. Bradley (of MBH98 hockey stick fame) really outdoes himself this time.
‘Scientifically, “the hockey stick is a brick outhouse, very robust,’’ as Bradley put it.
The reliability of his findings has been confirmed by more than a decade of testing and scrutiny by the field. And yet the campaign to discredit what he and almost all of his colleagues accept as the fact of human-influenced global warming has made significant gains in popular and political culture over the past decade. “
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/06/08/playing_rough/
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the hockey stick is a brick outhouse… full of s**t.
Wow, he almost sounds like he believes his own nonsense.
‘Scientifically, “the hockey stick is a brick outhouse, very robust,’’
Not as robust as what comes out of him while he’s in that outhouse. LOL
It’s the exclusion principle again. We’d all like to exclude “I could be wrong.”
“for their children’s sake”
Yep…do it for the children! Typical emotional appeal when the logic fails.
To extend on my post at Climate Audit.
They had a preordained plan for their outhouse and knew they wanted it strong. Brick seemed like a good idea.
A trip to the builders merchant revealed a waiting time for brick, but various timbers were on offer. In the absence of a suitable saw, they spotted a pile of bristlecone pine, all cut to the right lengths, though labelled “not for structural use”, it seemed the easy way to go, so much easier than all that measuring and cutting etc
So they built the walls out of bristlecone pine, and the roof out of brick when it did arrive.
Hey presto, an imploding out house, made out of brickwork
The outhouse is a great analogy. Ones that are locked up and sealed may look good from the outside but when you go in to use them they stink to high heaven. However, those that are a bit more open and have good airflow and ventilation are much less noxious.
Rather sad I feel, unfortunate when others look at your work and tell you it is incorrect, but that is the way things are in the real world.
Sherwood “Sherry” Boehlert used to be my congressman until he retired. He claimed to be a republican,,, but republicans in New York are quite different than those in most other states. It doesn’t surprise me at all that he would protect a warmist sitting before the House Science Committee that he used to chair.
When you run out of catalogs and corn cobs, what is left? Bristle Cones! The most robust cleaning method to date. Guaranteed to increase your climate sensitivity, CO2 or not.
The simple ‘Hockey Stick’ caters neither for the MWP nor the LIA. For these two periods, there is more than ample anecdotal evidence no matter what the Bristlecone Pine says. It remains that tree rings can be a useful dating mechanism but their comment on climate (actually weather) is not well established apart from major global events like massive volcanic eruptions. The science is not settled and there is a long way to go.
“Pull my finger” – you stated my thoughts perfectly!
Was Bradley, the dim bulb, even thinking when he chose the outhouse analogy?
Especially after a full 10 days of Weiner jokes on the National front!
This is so appropriate — Bradley/Mann/Stick/Outhouse. I will always connect these 4 words.
As a hockey loving Canadian might I remind Dr. Bradley that today’s hockey stick is made of composite material that has a tendency to explode to pieces on contact while in the process of performing a slapshot 40% of the time. Perhaps its only fitting Dr. Bradley why your hockey stick and the NHL hockey stick have so much in common as both have failed to deliver in the crunch. While I hasten to add the National Hockey League is at least inquiring why so many composite hockey sticks have failed at critical times in the game. Maybe you could follow the NHL example Dr. Bradley and inquire why YOUR composite hockey stick failed the test of real world climate. Perhaps you might want to read some of the articles at this site and educated yourself to your many failures. We in the hockey world seek to improve our product – YOU, sir, might at least follow our example.
I hope one day that he gets ‘tarred and feathered’ with the product of said outhouse, and all his ‘Team’ pals with him.
Scientifically robust ? – FFS ! – I feel a single monkey on a typewrite could have produced more reliable research in half the time at a billionth of the cost!
I should imagine there is more scientific integrity shown by the average amoeba than some of these guys.
I believe the Boston Globe belongs in that outshouse where it might actually be of some use.
Steve M. has a nice retort to this as well. http://climateaudit.org/2011/06/08/built-like-an-outhouse/
He really really could have picked a better analogy that an outhouse. OMG is that how they view their science?. Actually I concurr.
I love the brick outhouse thing. The normal reference is something like, “she is built like a brick outhouse”. You would expect curves are involved with the reference to femininity. The only place left for the AGW hockey stick is in the collection pit.
The stick still stinks, and Bradley is still in denial.
Shame the roof fell in….
Woo Hoo! Talk about a mixed metaphor. It would be brilliant if the guy had his tongue in his cheek. As it is, I’d call it inept use of the brick sh*t-house cliche’ yoked to the much overused adjective; “robust”. The statement is also an odd way to vouch for the scientific quality of anything. I can go along with the idea that the science of the hockeystick is as intricate as an outhouse. It sure ain’t a palace.
… and just what is that brown stuff at the end of that hockey stick? OMG, it’s, it’s “sh*t-on-a-stick”
I would like to ask Carlo Rotella whether the author of the book actually rebuts one important criticism of the the Hockey Stick. If so, I would like to invite Rotella or the author of the book to state the rebuttal here. If they did, they would find that their reasoning does not withstand scrutiny. It is time to drop the hype and pick up argument, something that Warmista have avoided at all costs.
Need to remember the the Boston Glob is owned by the NY Slimes….
Sadly people up here think it’s the word of God.
Now that it is warm in the East US, where the population is, we will hear all summer about how it’s worse than we thought, with no reference to the record snows and cold in the West.
Which, of course will be blamed on AGW…
Outhouses stink no matter how ‘sturdy’ they are.
Does match the odious ‘hockeystick’ output though.
I as well I can’t believe they used this old and rather morose saying as an analogy. Still they cover, lie, and try to explain their bad scientific methodology is almost laughable were it not so costly.
To quote MacIntyre, “You just can’t make this stuff up.” These people continue to reveal themselves for the cranks that they are.
Good luck selling that analogy to the public & asking them to pony up for a carbon tax.