I never noticed this, but once Steve Goddard pointed it out, it was obvious. In his 1997 paper, Keith Briffa said he didn't understand why his tree-ring reconstructions, which had previously tracked well with temperature, diverged suddenly around 1960.
He ascribed the changed to some as yet unknown anthropogenic influence. He was right. There was indeed a man-made influence: James Hansen et al at NASA and NOAA. If Briffa had used the National Academy of Sciences data from 1975, before Hansen...
He could have done this...
And made a much better case for the soundness of his work. But he used data from the Hockey Team, which was busy "hiding the decline" to make themselves the gods of every-year-is-the-hottest-ever science policy, altereing the data, cooling the past and warming the present...
The other irony is that the non-existent divergence is what prompted "Mike's Nature Trick." But then Keith had his own trick--just delete adverse data...
So, fuck 'em all. As Goddard said, they have destroyed an entire science.
He ascribed the changed to some as yet unknown anthropogenic influence. He was right. There was indeed a man-made influence: James Hansen et al at NASA and NOAA. If Briffa had used the National Academy of Sciences data from 1975, before Hansen...
So, fuck 'em all. As Goddard said, they have destroyed an entire science.
