Reply #2: Jumping to conclusions [View All]

Aren't you jumping to conclusions?

That hockey stick was presented to M&M as a double-edged joke! Take a closer look at the blade of that hockey stick, it's not a pro-skeptic icon at all. It's a crooked handle but a big swooping blade nonetheless. So what does it mean? Who knows? It's a JOKE, not a provocative statement of ideology or fact. There are those in science who still have a sense of humor regardless of their opinions.

As for M&M, I don't cite them, I don't necessarily agree with their conclusions, I find their work to be mostly absorbed in minutia. Other climatologist projects (not Mann's) have shown a similar trend line. The trend line has been corroborated, so for me we're now down to grappling with causes & solutions.

What I don't get is the animus in these fora. Why is everyone so darn ready to go up like a rocket?