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“You know, I don’t mean to embarrass you, but I’m a rather brilliant statistician. Perhaps I could help you with that hockey stick.”
Steve McIntyre: IPCC and “The Trick”.
Much recent attention has been paid to the email about the “trick” and the effort to “hide the decline”. Climate scientists have complained that this email has been taken “out of context”. In this case, I’m not sure that it’s in their interests that this email be placed in context because the context leads right back to a meeting of IPCC authors in Tanzania, raising serious questions about the role of IPCC itself in “hiding the decline” in the Briffa reconstruction.
It’s long and revealing.
Anthony Watts explains as well.
They told me it was pronounced E-gor?
Well they were wrong, weren’t they?
It shall henceforth be fixed in my mind as “The Hokey Stick”.
“Context” – an elusive, fuzzy, indeterminate thing, and a favorite hiding place of the left.
I think everyone needs to hit Kate and Steve’s tip jars. Outstanding work!
I sure like the pic you’ve posted ‘Kate’. The depiction of pic says it all. LMAO, thanks.
More “tricky”.
“all the climategate talk has created a “tricky” problem of public perception.”
“But one person’s distraction is another person’s tool.”
“Robert Watt, the head of communications for the Stockholm EnvironmentInstitute and a former policy adviser in the British government, said environmental leaders should “relish the opportunity to explain the science” behind global warming.
Still, he acknowledged that all the climategate talk has created a “tricky” problem of public perception.
“People do come up and say, ‘I see so many different things in the media,’” Watt said. He blamed the press for creating a “fake equivalence” between climate change believers and climate change skeptics. “It’s not that sort of debateabout opinion but, rather, a debate about facts, about observations and science,” he said.
“I think this is a completely annoying distraction,” added Kim Carstensen, leader of the World Wildlife Fund’s Global Climate Initiative. “It’s very clear that this has been done to discredit climate research. … It’s a bluff. There’s nothing in it; it’s just a huge distraction.”
But one person’s distraction is another person’s tool.”
“Climategate distracts at Copenhagen”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405403/posts
“relish the opportunity to explain the science”
Climate science explained
“Yes we destroyed all our raw data, used statistical tricks to manipulate our presented data and suppressed the work of anyone who disagreed with us. But what you ignorant swine completely fail to understand is that this is how science works! If you prevent us from manipulating our data to fit our preconceived conclusions and driving dissenters out of academia– there will be no science anymore!
Why if we made our raw data available to anyone who wanted to use it to reach different conclusions, the result would be sheer chaos! There would be multiple interpretations and possibilities. What would happen to Scientific Dogma and Orthodoxy in such a horrible mixed up world. Because if there’s anything that science is diametrically opposed to, it’s open debate on a theory.
Can you imagine how tedious and boring it would be for us to test every possible hypothesis and then use experimentation to determine which is right? It would take ridiculous amounts of time. What we’ve done instead is streamlined the process by ‘making stuff up’ and then manipulating the data to fit. We get grants. The economy is destroyed. And everyone is happy. Except you people. You’re never happy.”
What a lovely reference.
Good movie.
Kathryn….perfect
the climate whores will use anything to scam the sheeple….and I don’t mean to insult real “ladies of the night”
““I think this is a completely annoying distraction,” added Kim Carstensen, leader of the World Wildlife Fund’s Global Climate Initiative.”
Oh, the WWF you say?
Better look into that organization:
http://www.isgp.eu/organisations/1001_Club.htm
It’s a long read but well worth it.
Hide the hump. Kate you owe me a new keyboard.
Hockey Schlock …Hockey Schtick
Igor looks a lot like Iggy.
Interesting observation, Canadian Sentinel.