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20 years ago Steve McIntyre tried to get AK tree ring data sampled in '79 by climatologist G Jacoby who was keeping it secret. Steve just found it online https://climateaudit.org/2023/12/12/dis ... by-series/
As a temp proxy it shows hot 11th C, unexceptional 20th C. Opposite to hockey stick
As a temp proxy it shows hot 11th C, unexceptional 20th C. Opposite to hockey stick
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Thanks Glacier, very interesting find. So many things can affect tree growth and selecting the most hockey-stick shaped series sounds exactly like what an activist molding his own smoking gun would do. Despite the so-called urgency of climate change, Mann refuses to subject his proprietary model(s) to peer review.Glacier wrote: ↑Dec 12th, 2023, 3:12 pm 20 years ago Steve McIntyre tried to get AK tree ring data sampled in '79 by climatologist G Jacoby who was keeping it secret. Steve just found it online https://climateaudit.org/2023/12/12/dis ... by-series/
As a temp proxy it shows hot 11th C, unexceptional 20th C. Opposite to hockey stick
Jacoby and d’Arrigo [1989] states on page 44 that they sampled 36 northern boreal forest sites within the preceding decade, of which the ten "judged to provide the best record of temperature-influenced tree growth" were selected. No criteria for this judgement are described, and one presumes that they probably picked the 10 most hockey-stick shaped series.
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Thanks for the link... very interesting and curious about why some data was withheld/manipulated... was it for funding or ideology? makes one wonderGlacier wrote: ↑Dec 12th, 2023, 3:12 pm 20 years ago Steve McIntyre tried to get AK tree ring data sampled in '79 by climatologist G Jacoby who was keeping it secret. Steve just found it online https://climateaudit.org/2023/12/12/dis ... by-series/
As a temp proxy it shows hot 11th C, unexceptional 20th C. Opposite to hockey stick
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... but like so many folks say "follow the money"

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Outstanding historical data reaching back as far as... hmmm... 2017Drip_Torch wrote: ↑Dec 13th, 2023, 6:07 pm Evidently I lost track of Pyro-cb events last summer in Canada.
The actual number was an astounding 142.
Per: Dr. David Peterson, Meteorologist at US Naval Research Lab.
For anyone more interested in what's going on in our climate today:
https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/da ... d-peterson
One pyroCb event in British Columbia in 2017 changed the [pyroCb] community. A smoke plume from four or five pyroCbs was released into the stratosphere; at the time, it was one of the largest plumes ever seen at those altitudes, including plumes from volcanic eruptions. That plume travelled around the Northern Hemisphere and lasted eight months. It was the benchmark event. No one had ever seen anything like it. Then, in less than three years came the Australian fire season of 2019-2020. There was an outbreak of 38 pyroCb updrafts over the span of a few days that produced a plume roughly three times larger than the one from British Columbia. That plume travelled around the Southern Hemisphere and persisted for about 15 months.


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So the simple answer without the deflection would be a NO then.hozzle wrote: ↑Nov 29th, 2023, 12:26 pmGoogle is simple so I won't add instructions... but a simple search produced this...
Zhang helped oversee the alkenones method team, along with Heather Stoll, professor at ETH Zürich, and Liu assisted in the research. Rae worked on the boron isotope methods, along with Gavin Foster of the University of Southampton and Ross Whiteford of the University of St. Andrews.
“The alkenone method begins with biomarkers that were produced by algae millions of years ago, and these algae, like algae today, were photosynthetic – just like plants or trees on land,” Zhang said. “When these algae photosynthesize, they fractionate carbon isotopes. That process is determined by a number of factors, and one of them is the amount of CO2 available to them in seawater.”
https://today.tamu.edu/2021/06/14/ancie ... ers%20said.
... but I can hear it now... dismiss the technology to get the data and deflect the audience on other aspects of the link. Either way the technology exist.

From your link.....
As oppose to......The researchers used two proxy methods to reconstruct carbon dioxide levels during the last 66 million years, also known as the Cenozoic Era: one method using carbon isotopes in alkenones, and another method using boron isotopes in planktic foraminifera – single-celled organisms with calcite shells, common in marine cores.
https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/pub ... te-change/Ice cores are cylinders of ice drilled out of an ice sheet or glacier. Most ice core records come from Antarctica and Greenland, and the longest ice cores extend to 3km in depth. The oldest continuous ice core records to date extend 123,000 years in Greenland and 800,000 years in Antarctica. Ice cores contain information about past temperature, and about many other aspects of the environment. Crucially, the ice encloses small bubbles of air that contain a sample of the atmosphere – from these it is possible to measure DIRECTLY the past concentration of atmospheric gases, including the major greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.
....note: it's now 2.7 million years of direct CO2 measurements instead of 800,000 years.
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What Anthony Watts the failed engineering and meteorology TV weatherman does is to cherry pick the sometimes flawed satellite data and articles for climate change deniers and the Heartland Institute....(The Heartland Institute is an American conservative and libertarian public policy think tank known for its rejection of both the scientific consensus on climate change and the negative health impacts of smoking.)
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That's the key isn't it? Seem to me when the CO2 sits below 300ppm, there were/are small changes in temperature over many 100's of thousand years (maybe even millions of years) NOT the small changes in temperature in just 250 years like we are experiencing now......see the problem here?
......and even if the CO2 and the temperature were higher in Earth's history using the Big Guess technique of proxies, it doesn't really matter now does it cause we weren't around back then for the changes to affect us.......it's like, "if If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
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Read here first...foenix wrote: ↑Dec 14th, 2023, 8:11 amSo the simple answer without the deflection would be a NO then.hozzle wrote: ↑Nov 29th, 2023, 12:26 pm
Google is simple so I won't add instructions... but a simple search produced this...
Zhang helped oversee the alkenones method team, along with Heather Stoll, professor at ETH Zürich, and Liu assisted in the research. Rae worked on the boron isotope methods, along with Gavin Foster of the University of Southampton and Ross Whiteford of the University of St. Andrews.
“The alkenone method begins with biomarkers that were produced by algae millions of years ago, and these algae, like algae today, were photosynthetic – just like plants or trees on land,” Zhang said. “When these algae photosynthesize, they fractionate carbon isotopes. That process is determined by a number of factors, and one of them is the amount of CO2 available to them in seawater.”
https://today.tamu.edu/2021/06/14/ancie ... ers%20said.
... but I can hear it now... dismiss the technology to get the data and deflect the audience on other aspects of the link. Either way the technology exist.Like I wrote before....proxies = Big Guesses
From your link.....
As oppose to......The researchers used two proxy methods to reconstruct carbon dioxide levels during the last 66 million years, also known as the Cenozoic Era: one method using carbon isotopes in alkenones, and another method using boron isotopes in planktic foraminifera – single-celled organisms with calcite shells, common in marine cores.
https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/pub ... te-change/Ice cores are cylinders of ice drilled out of an ice sheet or glacier. Most ice core records come from Antarctica and Greenland, and the longest ice cores extend to 3km in depth. The oldest continuous ice core records to date extend 123,000 years in Greenland and 800,000 years in Antarctica. Ice cores contain information about past temperature, and about many other aspects of the environment. Crucially, the ice encloses small bubbles of air that contain a sample of the atmosphere – from these it is possible to measure DIRECTLY the past concentration of atmospheric gases, including the major greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.
....note: it's now 2.7 million years of direct CO2 measurements instead of 800,000 years.
So are they NOT measuring directly in both methods?

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In some respects everyone fails to some degree. Even Michael Mann, the UN, Biden. Science is also full of retractions.foenix wrote: ↑Dec 14th, 2023, 8:46 amWhat Anthony Watts the failed engineering and meteorology TV weatherman does is to cherry pick the sometimes flawed satellite data and articles for climate change deniers and the Heartland Institute....(The Heartland Institute is an American conservative and libertarian public policy think tank known for its rejection of both the scientific consensus on climate change and the negative health impacts of smoking.)
Not sure what UAH has to do with Anthony Watts, please elaborate. Not sure how the complete data-set of UAH is called cherry picking. What parts have been cherry picked, and for what?? You have access to the full dataset.
Your conclusions are way out to lunch. No such thing as a consensus in science when scientific fact is available. Unfortunately, you have very little fact in climate. There is no consensus except the debunked consensus from the kooks.
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There were small changes in CO2 and those were driven by temperature, not the other way around. Warmer oceans hold less CO2. We had relatively large changes in temperature 9000 to 5000 years ago. 4C to 6C warmer plus 3m to 5m higher sea levels. Not much different CO2 levels though.foenix wrote: ↑Dec 14th, 2023, 9:07 amThat's the key isn't it? Seem to me when the CO2 sits below 300ppm, there were/are small changes in temperature over many 100's of thousand years (maybe even millions of years) NOT the small changes in temperature in just 250 years like we are experiencing now......see the problem here?
......and even if the CO2 and the temperature were higher in Earth's history using the Big Guess technique of proxies, it doesn't really matter now does it cause we weren't around back then for the changes to affect us.......it's like, "if If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
Today, warmer temperatures are affecting us for the better. Would you rather live in a mini ice-age? I would say warmer temperatures were a benefit to all mankind thousands of years ago, especially for the Vikings in Greenland who were eventually forced to migrate by encroaching glaciers. Mankind and all life benefit from warmer temperatures, not colder temperatures.
Changing CO2 levels in the air won't stop weather from occurring.
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Jiabute, we've gone through this before. Can you not remember? Satellite temperature measurements use proxies as well as variations in sensors, satellites, different algorithms, models, orbit variations, calibrations, friction, etc etc etc...which all causes biases in the synthetic temperature measurements.....and as far as the TV weatherman is concerned, he cherry picks what research and articles gets posted on WUWT using these cherry picked data, theories and conclusions to push his sponsor's (fossil fuel) agenda.....you know kinda like Judith Curry.Jlabute wrote: ↑Dec 14th, 2023, 11:30 amIn some respects everyone fails to some degree. Even Michael Mann, the UN, Biden. Science is also full of retractions.foenix wrote: ↑Dec 14th, 2023, 8:46 am
What Anthony Watts the failed engineering and meteorology TV weatherman does is to cherry pick the sometimes flawed satellite data and articles for climate change deniers and the Heartland Institute....(The Heartland Institute is an American conservative and libertarian public policy think tank known for its rejection of both the scientific consensus on climate change and the negative health impacts of smoking.)
Not sure what UAH has to do with Anthony Watts, please elaborate. Not sure how the complete data-set of UAH is called cherry picking. What parts have been cherry picked, and for what?? You have access to the full dataset...............
https://skepticalscience.com/Satellite- ... meters.htm
......and if you read the article, Spenser of UAH blows off one your pet theories about "cloud cover"...
Roy Spencer who, with John Christy, runs the University of Alabama at Huntsville (UAH) satellite synthetic temperature dataset disagrees, believing that the cloud-caused bias is insignificant.
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So are not acknowledging the fact that scientists are getting trapped air samples from shells formed millions of years ago?
OK, that's your right. I wont ask anymore.

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Really? Here's your link......
https://today.tamu.edu/2021/06/14/ancie ... ers%20said
Show me where it says in the article that they extracted CO2 samples from 66 million years ago and measured the CO2 levels. Have you figured out what "proxy" means in the context of the above link?
If not, I would strongly suggest a little more research to better your position in this discussion.
It's right there in the first sentence of YOUR link. The key word is ESTIMATED (proxy method) and not MEASURED (ice core method)....see the difference?
n a new study, scientists have estimated carbon dioxide levels from the past 66 million years using two methods analyzing tiny organisms found in sediment cores from the deep seafloor...............the researchers used two proxy methods to reconstruct carbon dioxide levels during the last 66 million years