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Re: [Weather] Arctic sea ice melts to record lowsaid by Ian1:said by Wolfie007:News flash -- the divergence of some high-latitude tree-ring proxies from the instrumental temperature record has been known for more than 20 years, and typically called the "divergence" or the "decline" problem. Yes it's a problem. And when and where the rings are accurate temperature barometers is not really known. You misunderstand the use of the word "problem." It's a problem as in, "an interesting puzzle", nothing more, and there are a number of good hypotheses for it including the effects of climate change itself, like drought stress and atmospheric changes. The second sentence you made up is total unmitigated BS. It only affects a small subset of high-latitude trees. The consistency of the vast majority of tree-ring proxies with the instrumental record and their corroboration by other proxies leaves no doubt as to their accuracy going back as far as the MWP a thousand years ago. said by Ian1:One of the email chains in question was... Which proves what, exactly? If I was being intellectually assaulted practically every day by the likes of McIntyre and friends I'd probably be saying things about them that you'd need a bulldozer to clean up. I love how these meaningless innuendos are thrown around in a desperate effort to try to discredit the science, basically in the time-honoured tradition of throwing mud all over and seeing what sticks, because in the minds of the uninformed, certainly some of it will be remembered. It comes down to the inescapable fact that, try as you and the other denialists might, certain basic facts are incontrovertible. To wit: If there were secret nefarious emails impugning the IPCC AR4, why have the conclusions -- which span thousands of pages in three basic reports and several more supplements -- never been invalidated or even credibly challenged? And it seems strange that Michael Mann is accused of such shoddy and "manipulated" science since he runs one of the most prestigious paleoclimatology centres in the world and his climate reconstructions (and methods) have been widely replicated and used to support major new research. Part of the reason for Mann's stellar reputation, incidentally, as anyone actually familiar with his work and not merely reading McIntyre's fatuous blog would know, is that few have approached reconstructions with as much fastidious attention to the quality of the proxies as Mann did. That McIntyre claims the opposite just shows how clueless he is. Unlike others, Mann rejects proxies that don't meet minimum replication requirements, and proxies are tested for fidelity and consistency. The bristlecone pine proxies were unusual because of the short-term variance, so (a) their influence was tested by running reconstructions without them (as previously discussed, and as confirmed by Amman et al.), but they were included in the final run because (b) they contain a strong long-term temperature signal and so add very important information to the record (see, for instance, Salzer et. al, 2009), especially when using Climate Field Reconstruction (CFR) methods. And finally, Mann was one of the few to validate his principal component methodologies by running them against so-called "pseudo-proxies" derived from climate models where the temperature record is precisely known, essentially working backwards to show that the methodology recreates the reference record. You may feel free to continue to get your [mis]information from Mcintyre's denialist blog, but here is where I'm going with this, in an effort to wrap up what has become a fact-free harangue on your part... said by Ian1:You're speaking in very general terms again. It's your usual fall-back. What point has the "global scientific community" (Since when was there such a thing? How often do they meet and give pronouncements? Well, one example would be a very important group that meets and issues a comprehensive assessment of the science every 5 to 7 years, and that would be the IPCC. Ah, but despite the involvement of some 2500 of the most distinguished independent climate scientists around the world for each assessment cycle, they are merely the tool of third-world tin-pot dictators. Ok, fine. The national academies of all advanced countries in the world, who have issued several different joint statements on the unequivocal reality of anthropogenic climate change and the urgent need for action on GHG mitigation? Discussed before, so I already know that that's no good, because it's just "glib" statements with no actual meaning! No, Ian, the "glib" statements are from those whose objective seems to be to win Internet debates rather than deal with actual facts. I probably wouldn't care so much if it wasn't so ruthlessly smearing actual scientists trying to advance our state of knowledge, who deserve our respect and not the contempt being heaped on them by self-serving denialist loons like McIntyre and Watts, and if the issue itself wasn't so crucial to our well-being on this planet. | | Ian1 Premium Member join:2002-06-18 ON |
Ian1
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2012-Sep-26 6:49 pm
said by Wolfie007:Well, one example would be a very important group that meets and issues a comprehensive assessment of the science every 5 to 7 years, and that would be the IPCC. Ah, but despite the involvement of some 2500 of the most distinguished independent climate scientists around the world for each assessment cycle, they are merely the tool of third-world tin-pot dictators. Ok, fine. Uh huh. The United Nations International Panel on Climate Change is not the "global scientific community". And there's much they produce I don't disagree with. But they're a self-selecting body, indeed influenced politically, so there's that too. Sorry, no dice there. said by Wolfie007:The national academies of all advanced countries in the world, who have issued several different joint statements on the unequivocal reality of anthropogenic climate change and the urgent need for action on GHG mitigation? Discussed before, so I already know that that's no good, because it's just "glib" statements with no actual meaning! OK, and I disagree that the climate is changing, and we ought to be doing something about it? No again. Nice try as well. said by Wolfie007:No, Ian, the "glib" statements are from those whose objective seems to be to win Internet debates rather than deal with actual facts. Agreed. I suggest that you stop that behaviour? | | Ian1 1 edit |
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said by Wolfie007:The second sentence you made up is total unmitigated BS. It only affects a small subset of high-latitude trees. The consistency of the vast majority of tree-ring proxies with the instrumental record and their corroboration by other proxies leaves no doubt as to their accuracy going back as far as the MWP a thousand years ago. So.... your contention, is tree rings are hyper-accurate temperature proxies, despite the fact that tree ring is influenced by numerous conditions other than temperature. And that this is proved because certain tree ring proxies (but not all) correlate reasonably well with "A" span of a very short time period (the instrumental record). Therefore, we can confidently decide they're good back 1000 years? Interesting. | | Wolfie007My dog is an elitist Premium Member join:2005-03-12 |
said by Ian1:said by Wolfie007:No, Ian, the "glib" statements are from those whose objective seems to be to win Internet debates rather than deal with actual facts. Agreed. I suggest that you stop that behaviour? Hey, I'm not the one who confuses self-serving Internet blogs run by armchair amateur denialists and assorted lunatics with actual science. I've tried to point out to you -- in vain -- that the vast body of peer-reviewed scientific literature that reports on actual research findings is what constitutes science. And when you glibly argue that there isn't any kind of general agreement there on things like the extent of anthropogenic influence, perhaps because you don't read much (or any) of said literature on the subject of climate science, I point you to the IPCC and the world's leading national academies which summarize those findings. Which you also find reasons to dismiss. Apparently no one can be trusted except Internet bloggers. As we all know, if you read it on the Interwebs, it must be true. Carry on. said by Ian1:said by Wolfie007:The second sentence you made up is total unmitigated BS. It only affects a small subset of high-latitude trees. The consistency of the vast majority of tree-ring proxies with the instrumental record and their corroboration by other proxies leaves no doubt as to their accuracy going back as far as the MWP a thousand years ago. So.... your contention, is tree rings are hyper-accurate temperature proxies, despite the fact that tree ring is influenced by numerous conditions other than temperature. And that this is proved because certain tree ring proxies (but not all) correlate reasonably well with "A" span of a very short time period (the instrumental record). Therefore, we can confidently decide they're good back 1000 years? Interesting. Would be "interesting" if that had been what I actually said. What I said was that the small number of high-latitude tree-ring proxies that diverge are in general agreement with all the others for all other periods going back 1000 years, so we know that the late-20th-century limited high-latitude divergence is a unique event unprecedented in that period. | | Ian1 Premium Member join:2002-06-18 ON
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Ian1
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2012-Sep-27 12:36 am
said by Wolfie007:And when you glibly argue that there isn't any kind of general agreement there on things like the extent of anthropogenic influence, perhaps because you don't read much (or any) of said literature on the subject of climate science, I point you to the IPCC and the world's leading national academies which summarize those findings.
Which you also find reasons to dismiss. Apparently no one can be trusted except Internet bloggers. As we all know, if you read it on the Interwebs, it must be true. Carry on. Wolfie007 I'm tired of you exaggerating my stance on this. It's tiresome, silly, and frankly, quite immature. Not everyone in this thread is familiar with your long antics in another thread on this in another section. But suffice it to say, for those interested, Wolfie007 's assertion here is flat-out exaggerated. And he knows it. And I think I actually read more actual scientific papers on this topic than wolfie does. Wolfie, you, not I are the one routinely quoting blogs as a source. | | booj join:2011-02-07 Richmond, ON |
booj
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2012-Sep-27 10:33 am
said by Ian1:I'm tired of you exaggerating my stance on this. It's tiresome, silly, and frankly, quite immature. Not everyone in this thread is familiar with your long antics in another thread on this in another section. But suffice it to say, for those interested, Wolfie007 's assertion here is flat-out exaggerated. And he knows it. And I think I actually read more actual scientific papers on this topic than wolfie does. Wolfie, you, not I are the one routinely quoting blogs as a source. Wolfie's not 'up to antics', he's defending textbook level science. You are the one claiming that it's there's been scientific misconduct, but dismiss all evidence to the contrary. I'm glad that you read a lot of papers on this subject, why not post a few links in the other GW thread of ones you think are interesting? | | | Ian1 Premium Member join:2002-06-18 ON |
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2012-Sep-27 12:43 pm
said by booj:I'm glad that you read a lot of papers on this subject, why not post a few links in the other GW thread of ones you think are interesting? I'll continue to do so. I won't be replying to the antics any more though. Feel free to start contributing as well. | | vue666 (banned)Let's make Canchat better!!! join:2007-12-07 |
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2012-Sep-27 12:50 pm
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said by booj:said by Ian1:I'm tired of you exaggerating my stance on this. It's tiresome, silly, and frankly, quite immature. Not everyone in this thread is familiar with your long antics in another thread on this in another section. But suffice it to say, for those interested, Wolfie007 's assertion here is flat-out exaggerated. And he knows it. And I think I actually read more actual scientific papers on this topic than wolfie does. Wolfie, you, not I are the one routinely quoting blogs as a source. Wolfie's not 'up to antics', he's defending textbook level science. You are the one claiming that it's there's been scientific misconduct, but dismiss all evidence to the contrary. I'm glad that you read a lot of papers on this subject, why not post a few links in the other GW thread of ones you think are interesting? Why post links that are often dismissed by Wolfie citing the author is a lackey of big oil or believes the earth is flat.... People who do so (dismiss others opinion) are not really interested in the truth but merely data that supports their own beliefs... | | booj join:2011-02-07 Richmond, ON |
booj
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2012-Sep-27 1:37 pm
said by vue666:Why post links that are often dismissed by Wolfie citing the author is a lackey of big oil or believes the earth is flat.... People who do so (dismiss others opinion) are not really interested in the truth but merely data that supports their own beliefs... Papers are rarely dismissed out of hand, personally I think Wolfie does a good job of digging into the data and conclusions of scientists when discussing a paper. The type of criticism you allude to above is more for links that aren't really that scientific. I admit it's part of the circular argument that happens on this site, no one trusts each others links. But all things being equal I think a group of scientists which different opinions on an issue can still discuss a scientific paper objectively. The reason it rarely happens is because the links most often discussed come from news publications or blogs, not the scientists themselves. | | Wolfie007My dog is an elitist Premium Member join:2005-03-12 |
It isn't the link that's important, it's the quality of its content, as reflected in citations to actual research, generally in the form of peer-reviewed publications. Denialist blogs like those of McIntyre or Watts tend to proffer a sort of incestuous closed loop of their own ruminations and references to other blogs, posts, comments, emails, etc. -- just about anything qualifies if it suits their agenda. References to actual scientific papers, when they occur, tend to be much like those we've seen in the other thread or published in right-wing popular media, where the meaning or conclusion of the paper has been grossly distorted or misunderstood. That's the difference between science and propaganda. | | Wolfie007 2 edits |
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There is no exaggeration on my part of your stance on this. The fact that you acknowledge that we should be reducing our GHG emissions is not an exoneration when you continue to attack the underlying science and the scientists without basis, and merely state that it seems "intuitively a bad idea" (your words) to dump all that CO2 into the air. What is truly tiresome and silly is the relentless attacks on sound science, using minor controversies exaggerated out of all reason or entirely falsified to try to cast doubt on well established conclusions.
You may be sincere in believing the accusations you make, but it doesn't change the facts or make them any more valid. I really don't care where you get the information for the claims you make -- the point is that the only backing for them is from disreputable blogs like that of Steve McIntyre, and the claims are either extremely misleading or, in most cases, entirely wrong.
Just some of the examples mentioned recently, which I provide for the edification of anyone interested.
--------------------------- - the claim that Mann inappropriately used decentred PCA which created an artificial "hockey stick" pattern, and the claim that "the statistical approaches within the climate science community have been ham-handed at best..."
The decentred PCA technique in this context is arguably controversial, but absolutely does not lead to any of the erroneous results claimed. This was established by multiple sources including the National Academy of Sciences 2006 review, the Wahl and Amman 2007 paper, and others. It was far less controversial than many other methodologies that have been applied in pursuit of solid science, and became a theme of denialists because of McIntyre's false accusations. Furthermore, while you (or more precisely, McIntyre's blog) cites I.T. Jolie as claiming that it's bad statistics, Jolie's own book describes non-centred PCA as "a fairly well-established technique in ecology" and that " ... if the data are such that the origin is an important point of reference, then this type of analysis can be relevant." But the real point is it makes no substantial difference to the shape of the reconstruction, as one would expect from a properly applied PCA.
Climate scientists also work regularly with statisticians, recognizing the value of interdisciplinary collaboration -- that's why collaborations like the NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) Geophysical Statistics Project were started.
--------------------------- - the claim that "the analysis with and without the Bristlecones pines was substantially different" and that it's "a series that even the dudes that published the data stated was a terrible temperature proxy, and should never be used as one."
No, it wasn't. First of all Mann himself did exactly that comparison, and Wahl and Amman replicated those results and published them in the 2007 paper that was peer-reviewed and published in a leading journal (Climatic Change) with their detailed methodologies. Furthermore, no one stated that it was a "terrible" proxy, only that the bristlecones had shown unusual growth since about the mid-19th century, and whether they are useful as proxies depends on the reason why. Salzer et al, in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009", concludes that the growth was indeed a response to temperature, and that therefore "multimillennial bristlecone pine ring-width time series at the upper forest border are a potentially valuable resource for information regarding past variability in temperature."
In other words, they are valid proxies, and their exclusion makes little substantive difference to the reconstruction anyway. Indeed, what their inclusion does is improve data quality, specifically the RE (reduction of error) in the PC regression.
--------------------------- - the claim that "hiding the decline" was some nefarious conspiracy to eliminate "inconvenient" data without reason
The divergence of some high-latitude tree ring proxies from the temperature record in the second half of the 20th century was already discussed above. It's been known for more than 20 years and indeed one of the early papers on the subject was authored by Keith Briffa at CRU. The IPCC discusses it at length. The entire subject is a trumped-up pretext by denialists who either don't understand the concept or see it as a malicious opportunity to try to discredit good science.
--------------------------- - this preposterous claim, quoted verbatim from you, which is a good way to wrap this up: "Nature likely didn't publish M+M 2003 for the reason that had they done so they would have looked like complete assholes ... for publishing MBH98"
For the readers, M+M is the dynamic duo of comedy, McIntyre and McKitrick, the former an economist and the latter a retired minerals prospector, both of whom are lobbyists against GHG regulation, and both of whom have been attacking climate science (and Mann in particular) for about the past decade. MBH98 is Mann's original long-term climate reconstruction paper.
The interesting thing is that M+M have a hard time getting anything at all published these days, have never and still do not do any actual climate research nor are they trained for it, and McIntyre spends most of his time running a disreputable blog. While meanwhile MBH98 is considered a landmark paper in climate science and has been verified and replicated by many other investigators and is now considered a foundational contribution to climate reconstructions. Mann himself runs a prestigious paleoclimate research group and has garnered numerous personal awards, as well as his share of the Nobel Prize awarded the IPCC. The claim that Mann was trying to "hide" the magnitude of the Medieval Warm Period is absurd since no reputable reconstruction shows a significantly elevated MWP temperature nor provides any evidence that it was more than a regional phenomenon mostly distributed around some parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Nor would it make any difference, since the (internal) causes and the spatial and temporal distribution of the MWP are reasonably well established. There are still a few denialists sufficiently disconnected from the science that they are still trying to push the implicit notion that whatever caused the MWP is now causing present warming. Nothing could be more ridiculous. | | Ian1 Premium Member join:2002-06-18 ON |
Ian1
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2012-Sep-27 4:19 pm
Yeah.... Wolfie007 . Good luck luck with your unique escapist hobby. You are suited to it. It's certainly more actually harmless than most. | |
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