New paper finds Medieval Warm Period was global & significantly warmer than the present, rejects Mann’s hockey stick

The Hockey Schtick:

A new paper examines 258 worldwide temperature proxy datasets and finds “the Medieval Warm Period was a global phenomenon significantly warmer than the recent warm period.” The paper also corroborates other papers including by McIntyre, McKitrick, Soon, Baliunas, et al, refuting Michael Mann’s erroneous statistical methods which generate hockey sticks from random numbers.

Excerpt from the conclusion:

“temperature breaks and peaks are centered within the Middle Ages so that, given the large geographical scope covered by the available data, we may conclude that the Medieval Warm Period was a global phenomenon significantly warmer than the recent warm period”

Testing the hockey-stick hypothesis by statistical analyses of a large dataset of proxy records

Guido Travaglini

Abstract

This paper is a statistical time-series investigation addressed at testing the anthropogenic climate change hypothesis known as the “hockey-stick”. The time-series components of a select batch of 258 long-term yearly Climate Change Proxies (CCP) included in 19 paleoclimate datasets, all of which running back as far as the year 2192 B.C., are reconstructed by means of univariate Bayesian Calibration. The instrumental temperature record utilized is the Global Best Estimated Anomaly (BEA) of the HADCRUT4 time series readings available yearly for the period 1850-2010. After performing appropriate data transformations, Ordinary Least Squares parameter estimates are obtained, and subsequently simulated by means of multi-draw Gibbs sampling for each year of the
pre-1850 period.

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