{"id":2445912,"date":"2019-07-01T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/time-to-move-on-with-global-warming\/"},"modified":"2019-07-02T08:06:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T14:06:30","slug":"time-to-move-on-with-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/time-to-move-on-with-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to move on with global warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In his letter <a id=\"N0x17a4a50N0x18806b0:N0x17a4a50N0x18b9190\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/putting-their-faith-in-a-phony\/\">\u201cPutting their faith in a phony\u201d<\/a> (June 26, aspentimes.com), the writer suggests we \u201cdig a little deeper than Wikipedia\u201d in debating the causes of climate change. He contends Michael Mann\u2019s hockey stick graph of the recent and dramatic rise in global temperatures was \u201ctotally discredited\u201d by two industry types named McKitrick and McIntyre, and debunked by far-right pundit Mark Steyn in \u201cA Disgrace to the Profession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">So let\u2019s dig deeper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Mann\u2019s hockey stick drew a lot of fire in the late \u201890s and early \u201800s from industry experts like McKitrick and McIntyre, but their attempts to discredit Mann ultimately failed. The National Research Council\u2019s congressionally requested 2006 report on the controversy concluded that Mann, although he was wrong on some details, was basically right: \u201cThere is sufficient evidence from tree rings, boreholes, retreating glaciers, and other \u2018proxies\u2019 of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years.\u201d (See www8.nationalacademies.org\/onpinews\/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=11676.). As the council\u2019s chairman of the study said later, \u201cThe conclusions that we came to were essentially the same as the hockey stick.\u201d (See <a href=\"http:\/\/old.seattletimes.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2010411091_apsciclimatehearing.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/old.seattletimes.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2010411091_apsciclimatehearing.html<\/a>.).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As to whether Mann is a \u201cdisgrace,\u201d consider this statement by the appeals court in Mann\u2019s pending defamation suit against Steyn: \u201cFollow-up, peer-reviewed studies published in the literature have independently validated conclusions illustrated by the hockey stick graph.\u201d (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dccourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2018-12\/14-CV-101.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.dccourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2018-12\/14-CV-101.pdf<\/a>.).<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Deep enough? Climate change deniers fought the hockey stick battle over a decade ago and lost. It\u2019s time to stop debating whether there\u2019s a problem and focus on solutions.<\/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\/time-to-move-on-with-global-warming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his letter \u201cPutting their faith in a phony\u201d (June 26, aspentimes.com), the writer suggests we \u201cdig a little deeper than Wikipedia\u201d in debating the causes of climate change. He contends Michael Mann\u2019s hockey stick graph of the recent and dramatic rise in global temperatures was \u201ctotally discredited\u201d by two industry types named McKitrick and [&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-2445912","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 15:47:59","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\/2445912","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=2445912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445923,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445912\/revisions\/2445923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}