{"id":2445758,"date":"2019-06-26T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/putting-their-faith-in-a-phony\/"},"modified":"2019-07-01T07:50:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T13:50:29","slug":"putting-their-faith-in-a-phony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/putting-their-faith-in-a-phony\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting their faith in a phony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In his letter <a id=\"N0xdbdb20N0xe133a0:N0xdbdb20N0xeb4b60\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/the-jigs-up-for-climate-deniers\/\">\u201cThe jig is up for climate deniers,\u201d<\/a> the writer selected Michael Mann\u2019s famous 1999 Proxy Reconstruction (MBH99) to support the climate alarmist position (June 23, aspentimes.com). If you dig a little deeper than Wikipedia, you will find that this study has been totally discredited. Ross McKitrick and Stephen McIntyre famously demonstrated that they could throw any random numbers into Mann\u2019s algorithm and get a hockey stick to appear. Further, you do not have to have a PhD to understand that tree rings are a terrible proxy for determining small changes in temperature. That\u2019s why Mann had to jettison the tree ring approach for the \u201cblade\u201d part of the reconstruction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">An entire book, \u201cA Disgrace to the Profession,\u201d has been written about this study in which even many non-skeptics explain Mann\u2019s work was a huge black eye for science. Some assert this study to be the biggest scientific malfeasance since Soviet biologist Lysenko\u2019s infamous work. One last note: Michael Mann has claimed to be a Nobel Prize Winner even though he is not. Who does that?<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Edward Collum<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Basalt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/putting-their-faith-in-a-phony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his letter \u201cThe jig is up for climate deniers,\u201d the writer selected Michael Mann\u2019s famous 1999 Proxy Reconstruction (MBH99) to support the climate alarmist position (June 23, aspentimes.com). If you dig a little deeper than Wikipedia, you will find that this study has been totally discredited. Ross McKitrick and Stephen McIntyre famously demonstrated that [&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-2445758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 22:46:15","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\/2445758","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=2445758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445883,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445758\/revisions\/2445883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}