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Chapter 6 : Corruption in the “Carbon World”

But perhaps the most obvious limitation is that tree rings are site specific – affected by micro‐
climates ‐ and virtually useless in determining global temperatures, unless combined with results
from hundreds of thousands of other trees throughout the world. This does not happen.

The UEA’s reconstructions were heavily reliant on around 12 trees from Yamal in Siberia and especially one tree –
referred to as “YAD 06” which Ross McKitrick, an Environmental Economist at Canada’s University of Guelph,
described as “the most influential tree in the world”. The UEA proxies produced by a senior and respected
dendrologist – Keith Briffa ‐ were attacked as having been “cherry picked”, even by his own colleagues although
he strongly denied this was the case. When Ross McKitrick ran an analysis on a larger sample of the “Yamal
12”data, Mr Briffa’s “hockey stick” disappeared.

Michael Mann’s tree proxy records were from “bristlecone” trees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. When Ross
McKitrick examined this data and models, correcting errors, another “Hockey Stick” vanished. The report on
which Mr Mann based his conclusions was all about measuring the positive effects of carbon dioxide fertilisation
on tree growth and had nothing to do with “global warming”. Professor Mann’s “Hockey Stick” program has been
likened to a goat in that “it doesn’t matter what you feed in, the same stuff comes out the back end”

The main problem with tree ring data for believing climatologists is that since 1960 they have
been out of synch with land temperature and satellite records by understating temperatures.
This, explains Harry, the programmer’s, comments (page xx) and also why Michael Mann was
possibly less than strident in revealing his “nature trick” of grafting recent actual temperatures
to the older proxy records without making it obvious that he had done so.

Paul Dennis, the Head of the University of East Anglia's Stable Isotope and Noble Gas Chemistry Laboratories,
was in charge of analysing temperatures derived from ice cores. Mr Dennis does not support his university’s
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catastrophic predictions of runaway global warming and commented that the approach taken by Professor Mann
of merging proxy and actual recordings was “not good science” and that tree ring data was not “suitable for
temperature reconstruction” Despite the fact that Profession Dennis is a colleague of Professor Philip Jones and a
respected academic at UEA his work does not feature in any IPCC assessment: funny that!

8.7.4 Satellite Temperature Recording
NOAA satellites have been carrying instrumentation to measure microwave thermal emissions
since 1979. The most stable and effective instrument is the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit
(AM SU‐A) on NASA's Aqua satellite which has been providing data since late 2002 and measures
temperatures to within 3/100 of a degree centigrade (0.03). NASA satellites are far more accurate
than either land temperatures and balloons and have recorded no temperature increases.

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Satellites cover 99.6% of the world and have a resolution to 4kms . This is the equivalent of 127,033,686 land
based thermometers and nearly 5 million times more granular than surface measuring stations. Satellites show
no rises in temperature since they were first launched in 1979

84 Who was at one point wrongly suspected of being the "whistle‐blower" prior to the Copenhagen conference

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