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It seems that in the latest publication from CRU’s Keith Briffa, they decided to leave out those elements (The most influential tree in the world) Steve identified that led to the Yamal Superstick.
Have a look at this remarkable graph below.
McIntyre writes:
Unreported by CRU is that they’ve resiled from the Yamal superstick of Briffa 2000 and Briffa et al 2008 and now advocate a Yamal chronology, the modern portion of which is remarkably similar to the calculations in my posts of September 2009 here and May 2012 here, both of which were reviled by Real Climate at the time.
In today’s post, I’ll demonstrate the degree to which the new Briffa version has departed from the superstick of Briffa 2000 and Briffa et al 2008 and the surprising degree to which it approaches versions shown at CA.
Figure 3. Comparison of Briffa et al 2008 superstick to yamal_trw chronology of Briffa et al 2013. Both in z-scores.
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…the next graphic shows the two CA calculations that had been so reviled by CRU and Real Climate (the green chronology of Sept 2009 and the May 2012 calculation with updated information from Hantemirov). I think that I’m entitled to observe that the B13 chronology is more similar to the two reviled CA calculations than it is to the Briffa et al 2008 superstick. Needless to say, this was not reported in CRU’s recent Real Climate article. 
Figure 4. Comparison of B13 Yamal chronology to CA (Climate Audit) calculations.
omnologos points out this missive from Gavin Schmidt on RealClimate:
The irony is of course that the demonstration that a regional reconstruction is valid takes effort, and needs to be properly documented. That requires a paper in the technical literature and the only way for Briffa et al to now defend themselves against McIntyre’s accusations is to publish that paper (which one can guarantee will have different results to what McIntyre has thrown together).
Looks like that guarantee expired.
Commenter ianl888 quips:
@Steve McIntyre
From Fig. 4 above:
it’s quite obvious that in 2009 and again in 2011, you shamelessly plagiarised Briffa 2013
Easily the worst sin in the academic book, run a close second only by disrupting the space-time continuum in order to perform the plagiarism
Too Funny! To prevent this from happening again, we need to establish a Pre-plagiarism Crimes unit, complete with a minority report. /sarc
Read Steve’s full report here: http://climateaudit.org/2013/06/28/cru-abandons-yamal-superstick/
The one that is really hung out to dry with Briffa’s recant is Obama. As the nation’s leader, Obama should direct EPA to withdraw their 2009 finding that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and to notify the US Supreme Court that his Administration relied on false data in their testimony before the Court. Obama should further sign an Executive Order that all technical papers with Briffa 2008 in the reference list and/or with Yamal data sets should be withdrawn and disregarded in all federal undertakings.
As a courtesy to our neighbor and ally to the north, Obama should award the USA’s highest civilian honor available to a foreign national to Steve McIntyre. He should also direct the US Secretary of State to approve the Keystone XL pipeline straight away.
In the climategate files, there were two people I had some sympathy for.
Harry was obviously first in line, but Keith Briffa appeared to want to do the right thing, but allowed himself to be hammered down.
Good to see that he has come out from under the hammer and done the right thing.
This video keeps coming up on my Google glasses when I search for hockeystick.
😉
It would appear that the Divergence problem still exists. Where is that CO2 curve? Still climbing.
@Philip Peake
“In the climategate files, there were two people I had some sympathy for.
Harry was obviously first in line, but Keith Briffa appeared to want to do the right thing, but allowed himself to be hammered down.”
I would not disagree with you on that, Philip. At the time I even thought it was what made Briffa sick.
Three climatologists went deer hunting. A deer approached and the first climatologist fired but he missed by 20 meters to the left. The second climatologist fired but missed by 20 meters to the right. The third climatologist jumped up and said, “We nailed him boys, job well done!”.
Philip Peake says:
June 28, 2013 at 6:32 pm
In the climategate files, there were two people I had some sympathy for.
Harry was obviously first in line, but Keith Briffa appeared to want to do the right thing, but allowed himself to be hammered down.
Good to see that he has come out from under the hammer and done the right thing.
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Others agree. In certain circles, Briffa has been recognized for his “slips” of integrity, despite pressure from the ramparts of catastrophe, and is even believed to be involved with some infamous emails, but I’ll not mention them.
..are we allowed to quote our vice-president on this?
it’s a big ———— deal!
..needs to be a sticky!
Congratulations to Steve. Vindication is rare in this world, but very nice, when it happens justly.
Also congratulations to Briffa. May God protect him from petty and unjust vindictiveness.
Luther Wu says:
June 28, 2013 at 6:53 pm
“ramparts of catastrophe”
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Now ya just don’t see that word everyday>
Reminds me of a song!
How many time have you really heard any derivation of the word “rampart” anywhere ?
Thank you for reminding me Luther!
I never had the feeling Briffa was comfortable with all the teams shenanigans. He will probably be much relieved that he is a scientist again, though i’m sure he’ll pay a price for not towing the company line. My best wishes on returning to the science.
I’d like to congratulate Keith Briffa in getting to grips with science not political agenda. On that point aren’t we lucky that the rabid green guys didn’t get the power and authority they craved all along, to get their hands on a REAL (CLIMATE) red button, so they could eliminate the actual Real Scientists, instead of imaginary school children and football players that questioned the meme or gave wrong answers to their loaded questions.
The big job now is to make sure those rabid power hungry “substrates”, never ever, have any chance or opportunity of realising their evil anti human power ambitions!
But even more grateful thanks for Steve in confirming his ascendancy above the purile comments of Gavin Schmidt’s when speaking of Steve’s work. Respect is earned, and a public apology to Steve is in order if Gavin’s tarnished reputation is ever to be cleansed of those stains.
May we ever remind Gavin until that happens!
OssQss: I hear it almost daily, though that is because I live just east of the Rampart Range, i.e., near Pike’s Peak.
Steve Garcia: though certainly CO2 is diverging from temp, that is not the “divergence problem.”
Mark
No warming for 100 years at Yamal
Congratulations Steve, this has been a long time coming.
I think Briffa knew all too well what he was party of, and it sickened him.
Mann had his doubts about him, and now I think we can say his doubts are justified..
While I can’t say this absolves Briffa, it is a start..
Briffa could be the key to blowing up the TEAM all together.
Just need to nudge him in the right way.
I agree, congratulations to Steve, his contributions to the science are huge and he should be recognized for this by the scientific community.
On the other hand, I fear that this may not make any difference in the near future since the Administration really does not care about facts on a number of fronts including CAGW. The agenda does not need scientific facts as evidenced by use of all the misinformation and demagoguery being emitted from the left wing at the highest levels (as evidenced by the flat earth comment). The attack on coal and the EPA mandate on reducing sulfur in gasoline are just several recent examples of the misguided agenda which is devoid of a sound scientific basis.
Also the push to spend even more $$ on a failed alternative energy policy is disappointing, misguided and full of promises that will never be realized because it is not supported by sound engineering thermodynamic or economic principles.
Since the MSM is in bed with the agenda, we are in deep trouble until we get the Supreme Court to invoke a check on the agenda. Since we have at least 4 members of the court that will rubber stamp any green agenda goal regardless of the Constitution, I don’t see that happening soon given the recent approval of the 15% ethanol debacle by the court based on incomplete testing and the willingness to dump the responsibility on fuel suppliers to prevent numerous engine failures.
Also the massive environmental damage to the Gulf of Mexico from fertilizer runoff due to corn farming is being covered up and ignored inconsistent with the responsibility of the EPA.
Compare the latest Briffa to GISS or HadCrud, and you can see just how much Hansen et al have adjusted down the historic surface temperature record.
I hope someone goes back and corrects those records some time soon.
And the BOM records in Australia too. They need the “adjustments’ removing to give a picture of reality.
Thank you Steve McIntyre for keeping them honest!!
Terminators come in all shapes and …
What a waste of time and effort by all parties.
The leaked e-mails show that the Russian researcher who collected the tree-ring data observed that the trees line had not moved north as would be expected if climate warming had occurred. I attach an excerpt from the leaked e-mail (document 907975032.txt):
From: Rashit Hantemirov
To: Keith Briffa
Subject: Short report on progress in Yamal work
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 19:17:12 +0500
Dear Keith,
I apologize for delay with reply. Below is short information about state of Yamal work. Samples from 2,172 subfossil larches (appr. 95% of all samples), spruces (5%) and birches (solitary finding) have been collected within a region centered on about 67030’N, 70000’E at the southern part of Yamal Peninsula. All of them have been measured.
[SNIP except for the last sentence]
There are no evidences of moving polar timberline to the north during last century.
Rashit Hantemirov, Lab. of Dendrochronology, Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology,
8 Marta St., 202 Ekaterinburg, 620144, Russia.
Mark is right–CO2 diverging from temp isn’t a “divergence problem”–it’s an “intelligence problem”.
This ain’t gonna be popular but let me assure you anyway, I’m a denier. One way or another it appears that the big scare is unwinding. I’m sure there are many like Briffa, who’d like to do the right thing. Speculation sure, but I’m sure that Keith must have given due consideration to the lambasting he’s due from this side of the fence. Instead, I’d like to applaud Keith and shouldn’t everyone be doing all they can to smooth the path for those who come clean instead of the opposite?
““We nailed him boys, job well done!”. [Mushroom George 6:50PM] LOL.
O Super Secret Quality Serial Sampler — Thanks for another fun video!
And for the BEST SONG IN THE UNIVERSE! (Well, folks, I AM an American, you know, please pardon my bias) — Yes. I did stand through the whole thing.
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Hearty CONGRATULATIONS on this long-time-in-coming vindication, Steven McIntyre. For YEARS those ol’ climatologists a-worked and a-worked and a-huffed and a-puffed….. , but they jes’ couldn’t come up with what ol’ Steve jes’ “threw together.” Boy, howdy! They is DUMB.
And good for you, Mr. Briffa. You’ll be in my prayers.
Does anybody know if Keith Briffa’s magic Charlie Brown Christmas tree, is still alive in Yamal, or did it finally fall over. Well you know that Ronald Reagan, when Governor of California , said of magic trees; “if you’ve seen two of them, you’ve seen yemal .”
Steve you better check if that tree is still up; it might be the cause of your anomalous anomalies.
Congratulations anyway.