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2011-03-31 09:29:51 | Goddard, egged on by Morano, continues to conflate Mann with the decline | |
John Cook john@skepticalscience... 124.185.238.238 |
I'm starting to see more clearly what's happening with "Mike's trick to hide the decline". There was no decline in Mann's hockey stick - there was very little tree-ring density in his 98/99 hockey stick data so there was no need for him to remove post-1960 tree-ring density data. So "Mike's trick" and the hockey stick have nothing to do with Briffa's "decline". That was the main point I was making in Muller Misinformation #1. Then Marc Morano runs with this headline:
which links to Steve Goddard's Steve does exactly what I was trying to speak against - conflates Mann with "hide the decline":
I think the root of this misconception is a desire for deniers to connect their hated hockey stick with "hide the decline". Anything to discredit the hockey stick, that most reviled of graphs. In hindsight, I might have spoken on this theme a little more clearly in the Muller post as it goes beyond Muller's misconception and is a general theme among the denialosphere. Anyway, something to think about :-) | |
2011-03-31 10:18:17 | ||
Rob Honeycutt robhon@mac... 98.207.62.223 |
It's really amazing to me how fixated they are on the hockey stick. It's like they are blinded by their own hatred of a... shape. |