Warmist Shaun Marcott’s media touted study now exposed: The ‘Hockey Stick that never was’: Prof. Pielke Jr.: NYT’s ‘Andrew Revkin updates his earlier posts to note the ‘lost blade’ from the Marcott-hockey-stick-that-never-was’
…UN IPCC Lead Author Richard Tol on new Hockey Stick scandal: ‘Truly irksome is the deviation between what the paper says and what their data say’
…New Climate Scandal Exposed: Will AP & NYT Retract Articles?! ‘Gross misrepresentation of the findings’ of New Hockey Stick Paper ‘via press release which appears to skirt awfully close to crossing the line into research misconduct’
…WIll AP & NYT Retract articles?! Bjorn Lomborg on New Hockey Stick collapse: ‘We were told’: ‘Over past 11,000 yrs, the last 100 were abruptly warming. Today, the researchers admit this was wrong’
…Prof. Roger Pielke Jr.: ‘There are a few bad eggs, with the Real Climate mafia being among them, who are exploiting climate science for personal and political gain. Makes the whole effort look bad.’
…Will AP & NYT Retract New Hockey Stick articles?! Prof. Roger Pielke Jr: ‘The reality of climate change, the importance of the cause or the evilness of the deniers — none of these excuse misrepresenting science’
…Will AP & NYT Retract Their reports?! Prof. Pielke Jr: Public misrepresentation of Marcott hokey stick paper may be scientific misconduct: ‘The blade was entirely fabricated’
…Admission: NASA’s Gavin Schmidt acknowledges apples-oranges fakery in Marcott ‘new’ hokey stick
…‘More than 700 scientists from 400 institutions in 40 countries have contributed peer-reviewed papers providing evidence that the Medieval Warm Period was real, global, & warmer than the present’
Global warming activists and media outlets are hyping a new study published in Science that claims the Earth is experiencing unprecendted temperatures. See: New York Times: Global Temperatures Highest in 4,000 Years & Associated Press: HEAT SPIKE UNLIKE ANYTHING IN 11,000 YEARS
But the new study is counter to a preponderance of existing peer-reviewed studies showing the Medeiveal Warm Period and the Roman Warming were both as warm or warmer than today without benefit of modern emissions or SUVs.
Penn State Professor Michael Mann has made similar claims of modern temperatires being the warmest, but such “Hockey Stick” temperature claims have been demolished in the scientific literature.
The latest research clearly reveals that the Medieval Warm Period (used to be referred to as the Medieval Climate Optimum) has been verified and was in fact global, not just confined to the Northern Hemisphere.
The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change reported in 2009 that the “Medieval Warm Period was: (1) global in extent, (2) at least as warm as, but likely even warmer than, the Current Warm Period, and (3) of a duration significantly longer than that of the Current Warm Period to date.”
In addition, The Science and Public Policy Institute reported in May 2009: “More than 700 scientists from 400 institutions in 40 countries have contributed peer-reviewed papers providing evidence that the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was real, global, and warmer than the present. And the numbers grow larger daily.”
Climate Depot has assembled a small sampling of peer-reviewed studies, data and analyses that refute Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick temperature claims of unprecedented 20th century warmth.
Medieval Warm Period found in 120 proxies. Plus Roman era was similar to early 20th Century — ‘Climate models cannot explain what caused warming 1000 years ago, nor cooling 300 years ago, so they can’t rule out the same factors aren’t changing the climate today (though they claim they can). If climate models can’t explain the past, they can’t predict the future’
Danish Meteorological Institute Scientist Issues Another takedown of UN & Michael Mann’s ‘Hockey Stick’ — ‘We cannot from these reconstructions conclude that the previous 50-year period has been unique in the context of the last 500-1000 years’
Paper finds Medieval Warm Period in Arctic was much warmer …
More peer-reviewed papers soil Michael Mann’s claims: Climate Was Warmer 1000 and 2000 Years Ago
Reprinted from CCNET:
CCNet – 18 October 2012
The Climate Policy Network
This impressive piece of research makes a significant contribution to a growing body of evidence that both the global extent of the Medieval Warm Period, and the temperature was similar, or even greater than the Current Warm Period, even though the atmospheric CO2 concentrations today are some 40% greater than they were during the MWP. –David Whitehouse, The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 17 October 2012
Now another paper, by Esper et al published in the Journal of Global and Planetary Change, shows that not only was the summers of the Medieval Warm Period equal or greater than our current warmth, but that the summers of the Roman Warm Period of 2000 years ago was significantly warmer than today. –Anthony Watts, Watts Up With That, 18 October 2012
We here present a 2000-year summer temperature reconstruction from northern Scandinavia and compare this timeseries with existing proxy records to assess the range of reconstructed temperatures at a regional scale. The new reconstruction is based on 578 maximum latewood density profiles from living and sub-fossil Pinus sylvestris samples from northern Sweden and Finland. The record provides evidence for substantial warmth during Roman and Medieval times, larger in extent and longer in duration than 20th century warmth. –Jan Esper et al, Global and Planetary Change 88–89 (2012) 1–9
Ice sheets retreating due to global warming often suddenly stabilise for “decades to centuries” no matter that the warming is still going on, scientists have found. It would seem that current predictions of sea level rises to be expected on a given timescale with a given amount of global warming will need to be revised – downwards. As the most up-to-date predictions are not very alarming anyway, it could be that sea level rises just aren’t that big a worry, over say the next century anyway. –Lewis Page, The Register, 18 October 2012
An eminent scientist has criticised the leader of Cambridgeshire County Council for denying man’s role in global warming. However Cllr Clarke has won support from members of his party – who loudly cheered as he defended his position at the authority’s latest meeting. His blog posting on the subject drew on Met Office figures which showed there had been no discernible rise in global temperatures in the last 16 years. Pinned down at …