Breaking the Hockey Stick

The infamous Hockey Stick Graph (above) started the whole cycle of global warming alarm-ism. Many skeptics claimed the graph wrongly used statistical techniques to 'smooth' out the well known Medieval Warm Period. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Hockey Stick supporters claimed the Medieval Warm Period was limited to Europe and the Northern Hemisphere. They denied it was really global warming. At the time, the Earth only had a quarter of a billion human inhabitants and man-made CO2 was minimal. Well, a new proxy proves they are wrong. Antarctica warmed too during the Medieval Warm Period.

(Daily Mail) — Current theories of the causes and impact of global warming have been thrown into question by a new study which shows that during medieval times the whole of the planet heated up.

It then cooled down naturally and there was even a ‘mini ice age’.

A team of scientists led by geochemist Zunli Lu from Syracuse University in New York state, has found that contrary to the ‘consensus’, the ‘Medieval Warm Period’ approximately 500 to 1,000 years ago wasn’t just confined to Europe.

In fact, it extended all the way down to Antarctica — which means that the Earth has already experience global warming without the aid of human CO2 emissions.

At present the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) argues that the Medieval Warm Period was confined to Europe — therefore that the warming we’re experiencing now is a man-made phenomenon.

However, Professor Lu has shown that this isn’t true — and the evidence lies with a rare mineral called ikaite, which forms in cold waters.

‘Ikaite is an icy version of limestone,’ said Lu. ‘The crystals are only stable under cold conditions and actually melt at room temperature.’

It turns out the water that holds the crystal structure together — called the hydration water — traps information about temperatures present when the crystals formed.

This finding by Lu’s research team establishes, for the first time, ikaite as a reliable way to study past climate conditions.

Here is what the Hockey Stick graph should really look like when the Medieval Warm Period is included..

'Climategate' expert Phil Jones Admits Medieval Warm Period May Have Been as Warm or Warmer Than Present

This is a startling confession from 'Climategate' expert Phil Jones, The BBC is reporting Jones agrees two recent historic warm periods are similar to today and he can't say the Medieval Warm Period wasn't even warmer than today. Of course, the infamous 'Hockey stick' temperature graph doesn't show this historic warming. The data was cooked smoothed and truncated to eliminate these warm periods and accentuate the modern instrumental temperature record. Here is the 'Hockey stick.'



Here is the data without artificial adjustments.

The Real Hockey-stick Chart

No. This isn't the temperature. It is US unemployment for the last decade.

Hat tip Gateway Pundit via Wizbang.

The CO2 Hockey Stick Graph Is A Fraud Too

Anthropogenic (man-made) global warming is predicated on two major things. First, that the earth is abnormally warming. This was alleged to be proven true by the 'hockey stick' temperature graph. The Climategate emails have driven a stake through the heart of this fraud. Second, human activity generated CO2 is causing this alleged abnormal increase in global temperatures. That allegation is also false. The 'hockey stick' graph of CO2 concentrations has been 'fudged' too. Historical CO2 levels are determined from bubble in ice cores. Since the age of the ice is known, this data can be compared with temperature data to see if there is a relationship. The validity of the ice core CO2 can be compared to modern measurements to see if they match. Here is where the fraud mirrors what happened to the 'hockey stick' temperature graph. You may remember historical temperature records are determined from proxies. The main proxy is tree rings. Around 1940, the tree ring data and actual temperature diverged. The 'hockey stick' creators artificially adjusted the data for a few years, then, beginning in the year 1980, truncated it completely and replaced it with instrumental temperature records. That is the only way they could get the temperature 'hockey stick' graph. It turns out the CO2 ice core bubble data did not match(pdf link) the modern measurements either. Without any scientific basis, they artificially shifted the historical CO2 data exactly 83 years to match the modern data and, not coincidentally, the temperature 'hockey stick' graph. (see chart shown below) The deeper you go down the 'global warming' rabbit hole; the worse it gets.

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Image found here in pdf format.

Mann's 'Hockey Stick' Graph Without The 'Hide The Data' Trick

Ever wonder what the infamous Mann's 'Hockey Stick' graph would look like without the 'Hide The Data' trick? Here it is.


Does anyone see a 'Hockey Stick?'

The above graph was reconstructed from this leaked email by Climate Audit and posted on their mirror site.

Hockey Stick Graph Creator Michael Mann Implicated In Global Warming Fraud

The infamous 'Hockey Stick" graph. (above)

Dr. Michael Mann is the co-author of the famous “hockey stick graph” of temperature trends. He has been implicated in the hacked emails implicating Hadley CRU, authors of the Hadcut record, in hiding data contrary to global warming and trying to suppress critics. Here is one of the emails addressed to Dr. Mann,

From: Phil Jones
To: ray bradley ,mann@xxxxx.xxx, mhughes@xxxx.xxx
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000
Cc: k.briffa@xxx.xx.xx,t.osborn@xxxx.xxx

Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,
Once Tim’s got a diagram here we’ll send that either later today or
first thing tomorrow.
I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps
to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from
1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline. Mike’s series got the annual
land and marine values while the other two got April-Sept for NH land
N of 20N. The latter two are real for 1999, while the estimate for 1999
for NH combined is +0.44C wrt 61-90. The Global estimate for 1999 with
data through Oct is +0.35C cf. 0.57 for 1998.
Thanks for the comments, Ray.

Cheers
Phil

Prof. Phil Jones
Climatic Research Unit Telephone +44 (0) xxxxx
School of Environmental Sciences Fax +44 (0) xxxx
University of East Anglia
Norwich Email p.jones@xxxx.xxx
NR4 7TJ
UK

It is unclear exactly what "Mike’s Nature trick" is, but it appears to help hide the temperature decline. This looks very damning to Dr. Mann.