Lets have a look at some of the facts surrounding this study. Shaun Marcott is a very inexperienced first year PhD. from Oregon State University. Who in the past has publically stated when asked about Mann et al., “Its not robust.” Marcott’s study is a proxy based model smoothing study using 73 sample marine sites that claims to cover 196 million square miles and 11,300 years. Only 73 marine sites that seem to me would proxy ocean temperatures rather than atmosphere temperatures. Now something doesn’t pass the smell test about this. Marcott et al was published according to the link provided on March 8th. A Friday. But Seth Borenstein of AP published a story about this paper on March 7th.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/recen ... -years.phpSomething else kind of stinky here. Justin Gillis New York Times on March 7th.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/scien ... .html?_r=0“In the new research, scheduled for publication of Friday (March 8th) in the journal Science.”
Again a day before the release in Science. This is a coordinated effort by all involved here. Two articles written a day before release with details about the study before it was published. This amounts to tabloid climatology. Oh but it gets better. Marcott et al have yet to release any data or materials regarding this paper. Taking advice from Dr. Mann? From the March 12th National Journal.
“Marcott admitted he was apprehensive about charging into the fully-mobilized troll army...” Oh, he sounds like an objective man of science only concerned with the truth doesn’t he?
But wait it gets even better. This study appears to be based upon Marcott’s thesis paper. But, there are key differences in the conclusion of both. First graph is from the thesis.
Second graph is from the released study.
A hockey stick magically appears. This is climate science by press release, pal review, and Science, the AP, and the New York Times promote it as peer reviewed when the researcher refuses to turn over data and material so someone else can attempt to repeat it. This study is no more than a glorified press release. Embarrassing at most. At the least proving this researcher has serious problems with his methodology.
Obama has failed with the carbon tax, cap and trade, but James Hansen said in 2008 that Obama has four years to save the planet. The UN issued another tipping point in 1989. 10 years. Both have passed and we are still here. This movement is a joke. No one believes you. Your desperate. I knew this cause was in trouble when it began to make absolutely everything imaginable was the fault of climate change. At this point the theory ceases to be falsifiable. It has become political theory so it becomes whatever the politicians want it to be. It is certainly not science.