{"id":1179,"date":"2009-09-29T12:12:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T16:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2009-09-29T10:45:29","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T14:45:29","slug":"a-broken-hockey-stick-graph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/29\/a-broken-hockey-stick-graph\/","title":{"rendered":"A broken hockey stick graph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The red line in the following graph should be familiar to you, if you&#8217;ve been following the Global Warming\/Climate Change debate:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Busted_Hockey_Stick.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Busted_Hockey_Stick.gif\" alt=\"Busted_Hockey_Stick\" title=\"Busted_Hockey_Stick\" width=\"420\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Busted_Hockey_Stick.gif 420w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Busted_Hockey_Stick-150x128.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The trick here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2009\/09\/28\/update-a-zoomed-look-at-the-broken-hockey-stick\/\" target=\"_blank\">black line<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A comparison of Yamal RCS chronologies. red &mdash; as archived with 12 picked cores; black &mdash; including Schweingruber\u2019s Khadyta River, Yamal (russ035w) archive and excluding 12 picked cores. Both smoothed with 21-year gaussian smooth. y-axis is in dimensionless chronology units centered on 1 (as are subsequent graphs (but represent age-adjusted ring width).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The &#8220;blade&#8221; of the hockey stick was a data artifact of the careful selection of <b>only twelve samples<\/b>. Including a wider sample produces a very different picture, as you can see above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The red line in the following graph should be familiar to you, if you&#8217;ve been following the Global Warming\/Climate Change debate: The trick here is the black line: A comparison of Yamal RCS chronologies. red &mdash; as archived with 12 picked cores; black &mdash; including Schweingruber\u2019s Khadyta River, Yamal (russ035w) archive and excluding 12 picked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[245,240,39],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climatechange","tag-globalwarming","tag-junkscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-j1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}