How to make your own hockey stick

Iowahawk as an amazing post about how hockey sticks are created:

Long story, but I do know a little bit about statistical data modeling -- the principle approach used by the main cast of characters in Climategate -- and have a decent understanding of their basic research paradigm. The goal here is to share that understanding with interested laypeople. I'm also a big believer in learning by doing; if you really want to know how a carburetor works, nothing beats taking one apart and rebuilding it. That same rule applies to climate models. And so I decided to put together this simple step-by-step rebuilder's manual.

And it's a great post! Now I have a simple understanding (Affliction not withstanding) of how the 'hockey stick' came about.

Also, Steve McIntyre at climateaudit.org, has the CRU emails in context, and that context is not too good for Mr Jones.

Plus, Anthony Watts shows how 'homogenizing' can be, uh, misused!

I would be remiss if I didn't give credit to Ace of Spades HQ for most all of these posts ...... you should be checking them out daily for their 'The state of Climategate Today' posts.

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