Hockey stick is, of course, fine.
Lots of crap spouted about this by the usual suspects.
Reality:
Quote:On the health front, the plea to toss the case notes that Ball, born in 1938, “suffered coronary heart failure” in 2017, after “quintuple bypass surgery” ten years prior, in addition to having Type 2 Diabetes. Apparently being old is a defense?
Ball’s attorney also added that his website doesn’t show up in at least 92% of searches for Dr. Mann, and that it has “low popularity.”
What this all means: no, the court didn’t rule that Mann’s hockey stick was a fraud. And no, it has nothing to do with Mann supposedly refusing to release the data for deniers to double check. Again, Mann took to Twitter to explain that “The ‘Hockey Stick’ data & code are all available & have been for more than a decade,” with a link to the FTP site that’s hosted the data since, by the looks of it, at least 2003.
And for whether or not the hockey stick, showing a rapid increase in temperatures in the modern era, has broken, Mann points out that multiple other teams have come to the same general conclusion.
Far from being a clear win for the deniers, the ruling appears to be more a judgement of the state of Tim Ball: a broken down old man, who’s lucky that no one takes his conspiratorial and accusatory ramblings seriously.
And that’s what his own defense said about him!
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/28/1881956/-Tim-Ball-Pleads-For-Mercy-As-A... Quote:Craig Thomler @craigthomler
Replying to @JamesRider3 @PolAnimalAus and 48 others
Mann fully complied with all disclosure obligations to the defendant Tim Ball relating to data and other documents.
No judge has made any order or given any direction, however minor or inconsequential, that Mann surrender any data or any documents to Ball for any purpose.
https://twitter.com/Andrewemcameron/status/1167273256950423553/photo/1Or:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDL81e1WwAA-D8J?format=jpg&name=small if not on Twitter
Mann’s data and code has been online and available for years (since 2003 at least,) right here:
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/shared/research/MANNETAL98/