Mike Mann's new sea level hockey stick

Water Hockey in New Zealand - Image from Napier Aquatic Center
Tomorrow at 15:00 EST an embargo will be lifted for a new paper to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. I have a copy, given to me by a media colleague and I intend to honor the embargo for the paper (which is open access and we’ll be able to read it in entirety) as well as the press release that accompanies it.

However, I can safely announce the existence of the paper, since Dr. Mann has already effectively broken the embargo by advertising the existence of the paper on his own website in his curriculum vitae (CV).

You can read his CV here: http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~mann/Mann/cv/cv.html

The paper is:

Kemp, A.C., Horton, B.P., Donnelly, J.P., Mann, M.E., Vermeer, M., Rahmstorf, S., Climate related sea-level variations over the past two millennia, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (in press)

By placing this on his website, Dr. Mann appears to have jumped the starting gun a bit, since I can not find any existence of the paper in any of his co-author websites or anywhere else on the web for that matter:

While I can’t say anything about the contents of the paper or the press release, I can tell you that very little has changed in the pursuit of the hockey stick.

I’ll have the full report tomorrow when the PNAS embargo is lifted at 1500EST.

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Tertius
June 20, 2011 10:47 pm

There’s a saying about astrophysicists that I think applies equally as well to climate scientists. Adapted, it goes: “Climate scientists are always wrong, but never in doubt.”
If it weren’t for the fact that they serve a useful purpose for those advancing a radical environmental agenda, we would pay no attention to them. At least the astrophysicists give us really cool pictures.

Nick
June 21, 2011 2:32 am

How can the listing of a new paper[clearly noted as “in press”],without providing access to the papers’ content, be regarded as “breaking the embargo” on the release of the paper?

Stas Peterson
June 21, 2011 9:26 am

The little pseudo-statistion who cried Wolf too many times has no one who beleives him any more Mr.Mann…

June 21, 2011 2:51 pm

I can’t wait to see Dr. Mann’s next attempt at a FrankenGraph (ie: cobbling together two unrelated, unreliable proxies to fabricate a chilling Hockey Stick tale, like Mary Bysshe Shelley sewing the hands of a violinist onto the arms of a Blacksmith).