Trakar asked me why the climate scientists would not use up to date proxy data if it was available. I don't really know the answer to that but I have strong suspicions that it is because they don't match up with the story that climate scientists want to tell.
An example to support my position-
Salzer and Hughes (Hughes is the H in MBH98, the original Hockey Stick) 2006 uses treering data including Sheep Mtn.
which gives the hockey stick shape
Hughes' data set ends in 1990 (which is at least better than 1961) but is there newer, more up to date data? actually yes there is.
perhaps you are thinking that Hughes was somehow ignorant of this update, however unlikely that may be. the odds of that go from slim to non existent when you consider that Hughes was on the panel that gave Ababneh a PhD for a thesis based on this very update!
Trakar, you can deny all the sordid goings-on in climate science if you want to, no one can force you to open your eyes. but if you ever feel like exploring more of the details, the chronologies, the details, the arguments both pro and con (CA doesnt moderate comments like Real Climate) are all on ClimateClimate Audit Audit
An example to support my position-
Salzer and Hughes (Hughes is the H in MBH98, the original Hockey Stick) 2006 uses treering data including Sheep Mtn.
which gives the hockey stick shape
Hughes' data set ends in 1990 (which is at least better than 1961) but is there newer, more up to date data? actually yes there is.
... we know that Linah Ababneh updated the Sheep Mountain data in 2002. We also know that Linah Ababnehs update, aside from finding a difference between strip bark and whole bark chronologies, did not replicate Graybills results and had no HS shape whatever. (Figures for Sheep Mountain for strip bark and whole bark from 1600 on are shown separately in the thesis.) So the Sheep Mountain chronology had been updated why wouldnt this update have been used, aside from it not having a HS shape?
perhaps you are thinking that Hughes was somehow ignorant of this update, however unlikely that may be. the odds of that go from slim to non existent when you consider that Hughes was on the panel that gave Ababneh a PhD for a thesis based on this very update!
Trakar, you can deny all the sordid goings-on in climate science if you want to, no one can force you to open your eyes. but if you ever feel like exploring more of the details, the chronologies, the details, the arguments both pro and con (CA doesnt moderate comments like Real Climate) are all on ClimateClimate Audit Audit