Lo and behold, after the corrections, it still looks like a hockey stick.
Since then the progress of the continent has experienced an inversed hockey stick syndrome.
Different materials such as fibreglass and carbon can be used to reinforce a wooden hockey stick.
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Despite this it sided with the hockey stick's overall conclusion, which did little to stem the criticism.
Recall the famous hockey stick temperature graph that landed Penn State professor Michael Mann in hot water.
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The Marcott proxy reconstruction shares much in common with the Mann hockey stick.
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Currently, around 20% of Americans pack such devices, with the growth rate near the steep part of the hockey stick.
Yet another hockey stick, and this one is right at the bend, at about the point where silicon was two decades ago.
Contrarians have nonetheless painted a misleading picture of climate science as a house of cards teetering on the edge of a hockey stick.
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Steve McIntyre is the tenacious Canadian ex-mining engineer whose dogged research helped expose flaws in Mr. Mann's "hockey stick" graph of global temperatures.
Lampooned as the hockey stick, Mann's graph showed the world remaining almost uniformly cool through most of the past 1, 000 years until 1800.
Merrill was so impressed that it bought a piece of the company and promised to hockey stick sales through its army of stock brokers.
The hockey stick graph at the center of this dispute was based heavily upon data taken from trees on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia.
As the Internet continues to bring people and countries even closer, the patchwork nature of regulations is another headache for any company that starts climbing the hockey stick of adoption.
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Probing the errors that generated the hockey stick can be safely left to the statistical pathologists, while we explore the character and rhythms of climate change over centuries and millennia.
Then temperatures began to climb towards unprecedented highs in the late 20th century - so making the toe of the hockey stick and the supposed onset of an unprecedented episode of man-made global warming.
We need to refocus our thinking and think, oh no, it's a hockey stick, it's a curve that really nothing much happens until we get to the very fringes and all of a sudden everything happens.
In 2006 a review by America's National Research Council endorsed points Mr McIntyre and his colleagues made on some methods used to make the hockey stick, and on doubts over a specific set of tree rings.
His hockey stick, which purported to demonstrate the link between man-made carbon emissions and catastrophic global warming, was the central pillar of the IPCC's 2001 Third Assessment Report, and it brought him near-legendary status in his community.
Their best known use has been in a reconstruction of temperatures over the past millennium published in Nature in 1998 and widely known as the hockey stick, because it was mostly flat but had a blade sticking up at the 20th-century end.
Also similar to the Mann hockey stick, the media is ignoring the devastating critiques of the Marcott reconstruction and misleading the public into believing that we finally have a study showing essentially the same thing that Mann claimed before his hockey stick was discredited.
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Comments on the tree-ring section of the IPCC's latest report by John Mitchell, director of climate science at Britain's Met Office, raise issues very like those highlighted by perhaps the most prominent critic of the hockey stick, Steve McIntyre, who runs a blog called Climate Audit.
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"While we agree that a passenger wielding a small knife or swinging a golf club or hockey stick poses less of a threat to the pilot locked in the cockpit, these are real threats to passengers and flight attendants in the passenger cabin, " the union said in a statement.
Then came the Industrial Revolution with its hockey-stick curve in income and life span.
Listening to yet another CEO predict a hockey-stick spurt of growth sure to occur over the next 18 months--it was always 18 months--my hands would ball up in dread.
From its heyday in the 1970s, table hockey featuring stick figures on a flat board controlled by metal rods, wielding mini-sticks swatting at a small puck was nearly wiped out by videogames and the Internet.
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Taking a Sharpie to a stick is hardly extraordinary for hockey players, who tend to write their names and numbers on them to identify them.
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And at hockey's Under-18 World Championships in Estonia last month, a Lithuanian player hurled his stick at a referee, hitting him in the upper body.
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