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DarkMagus
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Climate Scientists Skewered by Statisticians
Aug 18, 2010, 22:04
The recent inquiries into Climategate criticised climatologists for their failure to use the expertise of professional statisticians. Strange behaviour as their work is essentially statistics. Well, the statisticians have finally woken up & stuck their head above the parapet & apparently vindicated McIntyre & McKitrick's debunking of the various reconstructions. Essentially, they argue that the proxies used contain no statistically valid useful information r.e. temperature: noise gives equally good results. Ouch! Those who have been paying attention knew this already, but finally publications outwith the influence of the Hockey Team have got involved...

Here's a peer reviewed paper in the next issue of Annals of Applied Statistics. "A Statistical Analysis of Multiple Temperature Proxies: Are Reconstructions of Surface Temperatures Over the Last 1000 Years Reliable?".

http://www.e-publications.org/ims/submission/index.php/AOAS/user/submissionFile/6695?confirm=63ebfddf
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Erm.. okay. (stray)
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