Obama: Taxpayer Dollars for Green SUVs - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Back home this morning on the latest leg of his “Mission Accomplished” tour, President Obama spoke at Ford’s Chicago assembly plant where he celebrated a green, $6 billon federal loan to build Ford’s new. . . . gas-guzzling Ford Explorer SUV?

Mann and his bristlecones « Climate Audit

In a way, the situation is remarkably similar to the MBH98 situation and bristlecone sensitivity. One point on which Mann et al and ourselves were in agreement was that the AD1400 MBH98 reconstruction failed their RE test without bristlecones. (And also earlier steps.) In the terminology of M08, without bristlecones, they did not have a “validated” reconstruction as at AD1400 and thus could not make a modern-medieval comparison with the claimed statistical confidence.

Ironically, the situation in M08 appears to be almost identical. Once the Tilj proxies are unpeeled, Mann once again doesn’t have a “validated” reconstruction prior to AD1500 or so, and thus cannot make a modern-medieval comparison with the claimed statistical confidence. (BY saying this, I do not agree that his later comparisons mean anything.; however, they don’t “matter’ for the modern-medeival comparison.)

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