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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (884880)9/3/2015 8:59:21 PM
From: combjelly  Respond to of 1578510
 
The hockey stick isn't a theory. It's data in graph form which supports a theory proposed in 1896...

He gets all of the terminology wrong, yet other people are the ones who don't understand science?

A better example of Dunning-Kruger would be hard to find.



To: Wharf Rat who wrote (884880)9/3/2015 11:18:48 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1578510
 
>> The hockey stick isn't a theory.

Of course it was a theory. One which was subsequently disproved, and even shown to have been a fraud.

But a theory, nevertheless.

You people are scientific ignoramuses.



To: Wharf Rat who wrote (884880)9/4/2015 11:08:01 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578510
 
The hockey stick chart was generated by an algorithm designed to generate hockey stick charts. The purpose was to do away with past climate variations like the MWP and LIA.