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To: D. Long who wrote (14326)	10/29/2003 10:12:24 AM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793759

Hi Derek. Here is further comment on the paper by McIntyre and McKitrick: (Perhaps this is O.T. for a politics thread but the global warming issue is more political science than climate science.) numberwatch.co.uk Well, well! The pontiff of eco-theology, who has been choreographing the assault on infidels who doubt the true religion of global warming, has himself come under examination. He has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. A new paper by McIntyre and McKitrick of Ontario has probed into the inner recesses of the data that gave rise to the notorious hockey stick. What they found, in a masterly essay in academic understatement, is a considerable can of worms. Amid all the omissions, substitutions and amendments, however, there is one act of subreption that is so stark that it has all the appearances of downright fraud. Mann et al simply censored the data at the beginning of the series, which belong to the mediaeval warm period. Reintroducing them gives the lie to the claim, so forcefully prosecuted by the IPCC, that the past decade was the warmest in history. Pardon the repetition, but this is what Number Watch said only last month: The self satisfied arrogance of the likes of Michael Mann, who appears to be orchestrating the campaign, is really quite breathtaking. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! This international coterie, if not by fraud certainly by subreption, have foisted a spurious theory on an unsuspecting world, accuse anyone who begs to differ of being unscientific. The curve is not a hockey stick at all. It is what is known in the field of reliability studies as the bathtub curve – flat in the middle and curving up at both ends.