Briffa speaks out about the “Pathetic Paper“, with the added bonus of Edward Cook’s thoughts about multi-century temperature reconstructions:
cc: t.osbor
date: Wed Sep 3 14:00:06 2003
from: Keith Briffa
subject: Re: An idea to pass by you
to: Edward Cook
[…] The basic point is that I (and I think [Tim Osborn]) agree that Mike and Phil’s latest contribution is a step backwards ( in time and understanding ) – well in reality I do not believe it is a step forward.
At 08:32 AM 9/3/03 -0400, [Edward Cook] wrote:
[…] I am afraid the Mike and Phil are too personally invested in things now (i.e. the 2003 GRL paper that is probably the worst paper Phil has ever been involved in – Bradley hates it as well) […] Without trying to prejudice [a newly proposed] work, but also because of what I almost think I know to be the case, the results of this study will show that we can probably say a fair bit about < 100 year extra-tropical NH temperature variability (at least as far as we believe the proxy estimates), but honestly know fuck-all about what the > 100 year variability was like with any certainty (i.e. we know with certainty that we know fuck-all)..
5 replies on “0435: Briffa: Pathetic GRL Hockey Stick Paper A Step Backwards In Time And Understanding”
Briffa and Man should be in jail for intentional misleading; some people still worship them.. Only 10feet apart, 3 trees of the same variety have different thickness rings. The trees are lying, guys!.
you might almost think you were on a “denialist” site when you read a message like this!
A bit of philosophy from ‘Old One Tree’ himself.
Peculiar how the Team sound exactly like ‘sceptical deniers’ when they believe they are discussing matters privately.
That was enlightening and entertaining. Thanks!