Hockey Stick? What Hockey Stick? - WEBCommentary

Was the medieval warm period warmer than today?
The false hockey-stick graph relied upon so very heavily by the IPCC in its
2001 and 2007 reports has been rejected, for very good reasons, as having
“a validation skill not significantly different from zero”. In short, the hockey
stick, for all the squirming and wriggling of its fabricators and of their
associates, and for all the dishonesty and deception perpetrated by the
editors and peer-reviewers of several once-learned journals that are on the
climate issue no more than political soap-boxes for environmental extremism
dressed up to look as though it were science, does not tell us anything. It does
not tell us that there was no medieval warm period, as its fanatical but
scientifically-dubious supporters in and around the IPCC have tried to claim.
Precisely because the hockey stick is valueless, we cannot even use its
rejection by all serious scientists to demonstrate that the Middle Ages were
warmer than the present. Therefore we need to get away from the statistical
games played by the graph’s fabricators and by those, closely linked with
them by previous joint authorship of papers in the learned journals, who
have dishonestly come to their aid.
Instead, we need to examine the wider peer-reviewed literature, not to create
statistical compilations from the proxy temperature records, but to examine
the original proxies themselves, excluding the tree-ring proxies that are
known to be useless because CO 2 fertilization accelerates tree growth in the
same way as rising temperature accelerates it.
All the papers referenced below present graphs that provide visual
confirmation of the existence of the medieval climate optimum or warm
period in every region of the planet.
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