The failure of tree rings since 1960 to produce evidence needed for funding the next climate boondoogle, has led them to graft Obama’s national debt numbers on to the proxy temperature record. The hockey stick is very real.
They normally hold global warming meetings in warm tropical places (like Cancun) because climate scientists despise warm weather.
You would think alarmists would want to take in a round at the Summit Country Club during their next climate conference to demonstrate the catastrophic ice loss and new normal of 75 degree weather.
Heaven forbid, if the dozen or so key players (Santer, Rahmstorf , Hansen, Trenberth, et al.) went down in a plane crash over French Polynesia (all in a 5 star bid to save the planet of course), the key intellectuals of the catastrophic global warming movement would be wiped out in one fell swoop. 😉
That would be an unprecedented tragedy, especially if it was caused by a freak wind-shear that pushed the aircraft passed it’s tipping point.
Ha, you said “key intellectuals”.
The BoM would claim the event for ENSO.
A key part of Mann’s hockey stick fraud was manipulations to make the 20th century warming look like it was something out of the ordinary. It wasn’t. Here’s a comment from Jim Cripwell on wuwt:
An idea is for somebody to take a graph of a temperature record from ~1850 to the present, print out 20 or 40 year segments, remove the chronological data (years), mix them up, and then challenge people to guess which are the most recent segments (supposedly subjected to runaway CO2 caused warming). My bet is that few would be able to tell 1870 from 1970. And that’s the point. CO2 hasn’t done anything at all. CO2’s effect is nil. It has done nothing. Zero. Zilch. Zippo.
That is an excellent idea! There are statistical techniques one can use to rate skill at putting things back in order. It might be somewhat affected by the fact that edges will tend to line up, but if all of the connecting lines are taken away, I think you might have something… Maybe I’ll post something up tonight and invite people to try it. (but I don’t get any traffic :-))
Finally for once I’ve had a good idea! A famous person once said the key is to have lots of ideas, and then once in a blue moon perhaps one of your ideas might actually be good. And, MIchael, if you post something on your blog I’ll check it out, and link to it myself. I look forward to seeing what you come up with!