Hockey Stick History

I ran across this fascinating history of the Hockey Stick graph, put together by a British blogger, and wanted to share it with those who are trying to figure out which side is discredited.

http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2008/8/11/caspar-and-the-jesus-paper.html

Fascinating read. It is incredible that this academic fraud goes on and no one looses their jobs. If these alarmist guys are right, why do they need to lie to us?

"a swamp of misrepresentation, deceit and malfeasance..."

That article is is a one-sided telling of the story from McIntyre's (climateaudit.org) perspective.

Here's a post from the other sides perspective
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/myths-vs-fact-regarding-the-hockey-stick/

There's much in that the Bishop Hill article leaves out. If you are really interested in paleo reconstructions and the hockey stick flap, here's a good read:
Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years
http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11676

That's the report put together by the National Research Council at the request of Congress following a Congressional investigation into the matter.

Here's an interesting reaction to the report from none other than a skeptic favorite Roger Pielke Jr.

"My reading of the summary of the report and parts of the text is that the NAS has rendered a near-complete vindication for the work of Mann et al."

http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000859quick_reaction_to_th.html

I saw nowhere in the Bishop Hill article that even mentions this. To me that's a strong indication that it's not giving you a very complete presentation controversy