Shaun Marcott’s new ‘Hockey Stick’ study ‘in freefall’ — ‘Paper did not pass the sniff test. What does it say about Science that it would publish such a paper?’ [email protected]
'McIntyre has posted here about the mystery surrounding the methodology and here about the curious lack of a similar 20th century uptick in Marcott's PhD thesis on which the Science paper appears to have been based. Willis Eschenbach notes that many of the proxies used fail the paper's own criteria for inclusion, David Middleton has raised further questions based on examination of individual proxies. Don Easterbrook has further concerns'
