{"id":2445643,"date":"2019-06-23T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/the-jigs-up-for-climate-deniers\/"},"modified":"2019-06-24T08:57:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T14:57:05","slug":"the-jigs-up-for-climate-deniers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/the-jigs-up-for-climate-deniers\/","title":{"rendered":"The jig\u2019s up for climate deniers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">In opining that <a id=\"N0x1f94de0N0x1f01830:N0x1f94de0N0x1fac7b8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/more-skepticism-needed-over-climate-change\/\">\u201cmore skepticism needed over climate change,\u201d<\/a> a letter writer recently asserted that the \u201c\u2018hockey stick\u2019 graph, the most iconic symbol of global warming made famous by Al Gore, was based on tree rings from two trees\u201d and urged readers to \u201cdo your homework before you drink the Kool-Aid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">So here\u2019re the results of a little homework. Took about 15 minutes. \u201cThe term \u2018hockey stick graph\u2019 was popularized by the climatologist Jerry Mahlman, to describe the pattern shown by the Mann, Bradley &amp; Hughes 1999 (MBH99)\u201d study, which showed a relatively flat downward trend in global surface temperatures before 1900 followed by a sharp, steady increase in temperatures since then. (\u201cHockey Stick Graph\u201d Wikipedia).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">MBH99 was based on tree ring data from the Urals, Tasmania, Patagonia, Morocco, France (as well as ice core data from Greenland and South America) and three data sets from the \u201cInternational Tree-Ring Data Bank, the world\u2019s largest public archive of tree ring data, managed by NCEI\u2019s Paleoclimatology Team and the World Data System for Paleoclimatology.\u201d (See MBH99 Table 1. See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/data-access\/paleoclimatology-data\/datasets\/tree-ring\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/data-access\/paleoclimatology-data\/datasets\/tree-ring<\/a>). NCEI is a federal agency that our climate-change-denier-in-chief hasn\u2019t managed to shut down yet. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Bottom line: it wasn\u2019t just two trees. Tree rings and ice cores from all over the planet confirm that the earth has been getting warmer faster since we\u2019ve been spewing fossil fuel smoke into the atmosphere, and it\u2019s getting worse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">So go ahead, drink the Kool-Aid while you still can. The earth is not flat, the sun and the other planets don\u2019t revolve around it, and global warming is real. Time to #GiveAFlake like SkiCo says, and hope it\u2019s not too late.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Barry Vaughan<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">El Jebel<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/the-jigs-up-for-climate-deniers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In opining that \u201cmore skepticism needed over climate change,\u201d a letter writer recently asserted that the \u201c\u2018hockey stick\u2019 graph, the most iconic symbol of global warming made famous by Al Gore, was based on tree rings from two trees\u201d and urged readers to \u201cdo your homework before you drink the Kool-Aid.\u201d So here\u2019re the results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 05:27:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445655,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445643\/revisions\/2445655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}