Bishop Hill Cited by Booker
Jan 31, 2010 Climate: HSI Christopher Booker cites The Hockey Stick Illusion in his column this weekend, the first time it's made an appearance in a broadsheet.
The centrepiece of the IPCC's 2001 report was Michael Mann's notorious "hockey stick", the graph purporting to show temperatures in the late 20th century soaring at an unprecedented rate – later exposed as a statistical artefact. Another new book, The Hockey Stick Illusion by A W Montford, brilliantly tells the bizarre tale of how Mann's colleagues, calling themselves "the Hockey Team" and now at the heart of the IPCC, managed to resurrect the discredited graph for inclusion in its 2007 report. Montford's book, if inevitably technical, expertly recounts a remarkable scientific detective story. And of course, it was incriminating leaked emails between members of the Hockey Team that were at the centre of the recent "Climategate" scandal at the University of East Anglia.
Most disturbing of all are the glimpses the story gives of the inner workings of the IPCC, an institution now so discredited and scientifically corrupted that only those determined to shut their eyes could possibly defend it. This is now compounded by the recent revelations by Dr North and myself in these pages of how its chairman, Dr Pachauri, has built a worldwide network of business links which provide his Delhi institute with a sizeable income.
Reader Comments (9)
This man Pachauri, has too much time on his hands it seems. With all going so wrong for the AGW folks, now they have this tid-bit of what he has been doing in his off hours. People in the world were planning to tax us all, to save us from ourselves. I really want to know who wrote the checks to these folks and why. They owe us all answers, we don't owe them anything. Enjoy your lite reading:)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7111068/Revealed-the-racy-novel-written-by-the-worlds-most-powerful-climate-scientist.html
It gets better. With Philip Stott and James Delngpole also pulling out all the stops and Ed Miliband declaring war on us, victory is now in sight. Keep it up,
Well done Andrew, writing is the new career better get started on the next one
As a geologist and not a climatologist the first thing I noticed about the 'Hockey Stick' was the ridiculous and mind blowing huge rise, I thought,
"that's a bit rich!"
I don't want to say, "I told you so"
but my first impression was bu*****t and my opinion is unchanged.
@ January 31, 2010 | Phillip Bratby
Ed Miliband, says - blah blah blah........... let battle commence!
I first took an interest in climate science when the 2007 IPCC report was released. I always suspect motives and evidence where there is a lot of media hype so started to look at the data presented. I've worked in instrumental (chemical) analysis for over 30yrs, so am used to looking at data. When I looked at the putative temperature records for the first time my thought was like TJ Arnold above, 'that looks a bit odd, must be a few instrumental artifacts in there'. Instict proved correct!
Pachauri still thinks he's important enough to require a chauffeur...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1247376/Controversial-climate-change-boss-uses-car-AND-driver-travel-mile-office---says-YOU-use-public-transport.html
James P
In a few months Pachauri will be lucky if he is the chauffeur.
Nicely done, yer grace.
Yer Grace
Your book was delivered today - Canberra, Australia.
But Harribin was at it again on R4 Today defending land based data sets, Amazon "still at risk" blah blah fingers in the ear style.
Paul