Comments on: How to lie with graphs. Looking at YOU, Sen Inhofe https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/26/medieval-warm-period-is-a-hoax/ Tue, 27 Jan 2015 13:54:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/26/medieval-warm-period-is-a-hoax/#comment-216855 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 13:54:03 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=8041#comment-216855 Discredited may be the wrong word, you are right, in this context. It has been overturned, or more exactly, the concept has been updated.

Discredited applies more to the current use of the old, overturned idea, by US Senators!

]]> By: John Mashey https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/01/26/medieval-warm-period-is-a-hoax/#comment-216599 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 04:12:22 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=8041#comment-216599 Thanks!
Note, it’s not so much that it has been discredited, it was the best there was in 1965, estimated by a fine scientist to cover 21×34-mil path of England, using the best data he could get. Some people might want to think England is the world, but it isn’t, and Lamb was clear about that.

I’d say that it was an approximation to reality, that rapidly got replaced by a sequence of better approximations as people really geared up in the 1990s. TO some extent, it highlighted how little was then known
The improvements form a great science detective story, as people got more and more clever at teasing out signal from noise in challenging data records they have no time machines for. They ahve to work with the data they can get, not what they’d like to have.

Inhofe is not a scientist, although he apparently seems to think an anonymous Opinion article in the Wall Street Journal is authoritative enough to show the Senate. 🙂

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