A 'gross' distortion - FP Comment
The spirited debate over the validity of the fabled hockey-stick graph on climate change continuesLawrence Solomon: Under oath, North faults Mann too - FP Comment
Gerald North's panel ruled that Michael Mann’s conclusion was right even if his study provided no basis for that conclusion...Wind Watch: Skegness wind turbine cable snaps £1m pm loss
A cable from the Skegness wind turbine has snapped causing £1m per month loss of revenue from the renewable energy programme.
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A security officer, whose job is to keep people away from the work area, told us that the cables securing the barge are being tightened so that the barge will move further ashore on the next tide.
The repair work is expected to take a week to complete and is said to be “costing a fortune”.
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You might get some mileage out of this.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/recons.html
The NCDC still displays the hockeystick proudly along with all of chuckies ugly step brothers and sisters.
All of the tree ring reconstructions are crap. They know it too. But it isn't everyday we get to see how much of a crap they are by a direct comparison between a tree ring study and real world direct observations. The scientists call it validation, right? Steve Mc has been calling on the tree studies to be brought up to date for this very reason.
Well on NCDC's paleoclimate page there is such a study. Meko 2001 which is the sixth hyperlink posted as Sacramento River, California flow reconstruction (CDWR), under the heading "Streamflow" subheading "North America".
It's a raw data comparison between the Sacramento River flow as determined by tree rings, versus actual observation. The actual observations pick up in the year 1906, and right out of the gate are off by 3 million acre feet. And it gets worse from there.
I never had faith in tree rings as proxy for temperature, but it kind of made sense to me that tree rings would be an accurate water proxy.
Not after seeing Meko 2001.
Original article by Angela Gooch Skegness Magazine
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