As I just mentioned on one of the recent cartoon posts, Phil's brief is inadequate and outdated. Were I he, I'd be angry.

Maybe it's yet to come.
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The cool thing about the Piltdown Mann's Crook't Stick and the Marcott/Shakun elevator shaft is the obviousness of the deceptive statistics. It's as blatant as the deceit of the public by the authors, and closely intertwined in motive and execution.

They told lies, and the lies lie like bones in the desert, exposed, dessicated, revelatory.
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kim, your use of English is poetic BUT:

de secco is where desiccate originates, hence one 's' and two 'c's. I have dried up nuts to prove it, and had a bit of an argument with Word Perfect about 25 years ago! Some Spell Checkers still knead learning proper.

RR,

and what do you know about astrophysics that I do not?

I know what your answer is going to be; while the words used may not be those you would use, what Paul Dennis said is the same answer.

GC. You must have turned off your grammar corrector as well. Don't in believe technology modern then?

So either Martin A believes the 1.3F rise did not happen or Marcott et al were lying when they wrote '
Our primary conclusions are based on a comparison of the longer term paleotemperature changes from our reconstruction with the well-documented temperature changes that have occurred over the last century, as documented by the instrumental record.'

Or he could just be wrong, of course. But it is a bit rude to start flinging around accusations of dishonesty before you're sure of the facts.

Heh, gc, of course it looks wrong, now. I'm in the habit of ignoring spellchecker because usually, when I misspell, it's deliberate. Not this time, and if it's any explanation or excuse, I usually misspell that one, unless I think about it.
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You are amusing, Phil; do you not understand this point or are you not allowed to understand it. Clearly, you are bright enough to understand. Go watch Revkin's interview with Shakun.
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See Phil's dodge away from the lie? Are you misinformed, Phil, or ignorant? That dodge is disingenuous if you can't plead one of the former.
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Marcott's and Mann's sticks both have the same basic flaw; they smooth the more distant past to make the recent past seem exceptional. These were lies, and they were deliberate lies. Try to get that through your head; Nature will eventually force it through, but 'twere better for you if you'd smooth the path.
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Point is, it makes no difference if you use the 'unreliable' Marcott 'uptick', or the instrumental record, you get the same curve.

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As Tamino says 'Look at the spike at the end. The big, and most importantly the steep, scary spike at the end. That’s not an artifact of the way proxy ages were computed, or how the reconstruction was done, or the effect of proxy drop-out as records become more sparse in the later period. It’s what the thermometers say. '

https://tamino.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/global-temperature-change-the-big-picture/

Yah, yah, the elevator shaft. Don't look now, but elevators go up and down, it's their nature. Step carefully.
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The lie is in the straightened shaft. You should be aware of that; you've been told often enough.
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Old, forgotten, far off things, and temperature excursions long ago.
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It's an artifact of the previous smoothing. Marcott and Shakun understand that; so should you, Phil.
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"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."

Christpher Hitchins.

Micky,
Are you suggesting that there really are large temperature variations in the paleo record, but they just look small because they're far away? ;-)

Smoothed away, honey. You should know that, too. It's always the same question, the same question. Ignorant, or disingenuous.
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They are banging away at a table with trick legs. Don't blame them, they weren't in charge of the furnishings.
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Heh, does Ken miss the point because he can't understand it or because he won't understand it. You be the judge.
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Personally, I would call that too much of coincidence to be ignored; if you recall the “Hide the decline” fiasco, the proxies were continued to the present… can you guess which way the reconstructed temperatures went? 

Up, mostly.