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1 " Nobel Prize winner Ivar Giaever reminds us that “in pseudoscience you begin with a hypothesis which is very appealing to you, and then you only look for things which confirm the hypothesis”. "
― Mark Steyn , A Disgrace to the Profession
2 " A few weeks after the Climategate emails were released, Dr Sprigg spoke at the 13th Energy & Environment Expo in Phoenix177: Focusing closely on the Climategate scandal, in which leaked emails revealed IPCC gatekeepers hid, manipulated, and destroyed scientific data that contradicted claims of substantial human-induced global warming, Sprigg said the scandal has harmed the movement’s scientific credibility. "
3 " Let us stop making unjustified claims and exaggerated projections about the future even if the editors of some eminent journals are just waiting to publish them. "
4 " When McIntyre & McKitrick itemized specific problems with Mann’s work of the kind he had raised more generally back in 1996, Wigley was sympathetic - if only in private. "
5 " our” reaction on the errors found in Mike Mann’s work were not especially honest. "
6 " Who does most damage to the climate movement? Michael Mann, Phil Jones, Jim Hansen, Peter Gleick, Al Gore, Rajendra Pachauri (not necessarily in that order). "
7 " Competent scientists do not doubt the hockey stick because it does not have enough publications to back it up. They doubt it because it has been shown to be based on incorrect math and inadequate data. "
8 " Peer review” at scientific journals means that every paper submitted gets reviewed by (generally) anonymous referees with expertise in the field. "
9 " saying it gets warmer or colder by a few tenths of a degree, should be taken as evidence that the end of the world is coming. "
10 " How many of us, on being assured that “the science is settled”, are aware that it’s been settled on the basis of one Québécois tree? "
11 " regard appeals to authority as somewhat unAmerican "
12 " The Nobel Institute had nothing to say about him, other than that he had never won a Nobel Prize. "
13 " Furthermore, the scientists who actually collected the tree-ring data that Mann cannibalized insist they’re primarily an indicator of CO2 fertilization, not temperature. "
14 " The behavior of Michael Mann is a disgrace to the profession. "
15 " We now know that the hockey stick graph is fraudulent. "
16 " Pseudoscience is a very strange thing, because in pseudoscience you begin with a hypothesis which is very appealing to you, and then you only look for things which confirm the hypothesis. "
17 " the UN IPCC desperately needs this graph. "
18 " The interpretation of the observational science has been consistently over-egged to produce alarm. "
19 " have no way of knowing how cold (or warm) the globe actually got”, how did the IPCC know it’s hotter than it’s been for a thousand years? "
20 " Why did the IPCC so quickly and uncritically accept the Mann et al hockey stick analysis when it first appeared? I cannot help but conclude that it’s because they wanted to believe it. "
