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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (32449)	2/15/2011 5:34:44 PM
From: Land Shark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36918

>Look, scientists aren't supposed to hide problems with their methodology and the idea that Mann/Briffa's proxies reliably tracked global temps for 1000 years and then suddenly stopped doing so in 1960 is bullshit. People who defend such things aren't really interested in science. They didn't hide it. The divergence problem has been openly discussed in the journals since the 60's. It's the "skeptics" that are hiding their motives by distorting the truth about what was hidden. This lit. survey paper was released in '08 and covers the divergence question quite nicely: wsl.ch Here's an interesting paper, released in '06, on the Robustness of proxy-based climate field reconstruction methods meteo.psu.edu The "ClimateGate" fraud (I mean the hackers and skeptics were the frauds) came out in '09.