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Your Hockey Stick

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Time to get it tied:

Eschewing procreation in order to spread their message only through conversion? Well, it worked for the Shakers…

Meanwhile, Joe Bastardi is upset at Michael Mann’s slam at Judith Curry (among others). James Taranto is entertained by the vasectomizing twit:

Ed Driscoll has a lot more.

4 thoughts on “Your Hockey Stick”

    1. Mann uses the term deniers seven times. Maybe he should be sued for making the analogy that people who disagree with him support genocide against the Jews.

  3. “Career fossil fuel-industry apologist Bjorn Lomborg, in Rupert Murdoch’s the Australian, wrote on 16 September:”

    Mann is telling us he isn’t motivated by politics while writing things like this?

    “What about the converse claim, promoted by critics, that the IPCC has exaggerated the evidence?

    Well, if anything, the opposite appears closer to the truth. In many respects, the IPCC has been overly conservative in its assessment of the science. The new report, for example, slightly reduces the lower end of the estimated uncertainty range for a quantity know as the equilibrium climate sensitivity – the amount of warming scientists expect in response to a doubling of carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations relative to preindustrial levels (concentrations that will be seen mid-century, given business-as-us”

    What he is saying is, the models are wrong and that warming isn’t happening as was predicted and so they lowered the floor of the predictions. This is important because the warming showed by their own data was lower than what was predicted by the models. Adjusting predictions after events have happened that proved them wrong isn’t science.

    “The IPCC reports a likely range of 1.5C to 4.5C (roughly 3F to 8F) for this quantity, the lower end having been dropped from 2.0C in the fourth IPCC assessment.”

    Warming didn’t happen as was expected so they had to lower the predicted rise in temperature. This should be sending up red flags for everyone, including AGW alarmists and especially people who claim to be scientists.

    “The lowering is based on one narrow line of evidence: the slowing of surface warming during the past decade.”

    Well, duh.

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