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Zombie Steve and the Hockey Stick
September 29, 2014 0

Zombie Steve and the Hockey Stick

By News Desk

toto said… My understanding is that "short-centering" was actually a bona-fide bug. If you’re computing a covariance matrix by simply multiplying the data with its own inverse, "short-centering" the data around the recent past will produce "fake covariance" of all series with the hockey-stickish series (with a negative sign, but that’s irrelevant).The actual PCs being computed are the same, but the ‘hockey-stickish’ ones now seem to explain much more of the variance – spuriously so.Unfortunately the auditor-in-chief proceeded to introduce a bug of his own, by keeping the same number of PCs as Mann after full-centering the matrix, even though by then you need to include more PCs to capture sufficient variance

Upsides Down and Backwards
September 28, 2014 0

Upsides Down and Backwards

By News Desk

Tweet Nick Stokes has his teeth into the hockey stick for a while.  Back in 2011 he explored Deep Climate’s exposure of the Wegman hanky panky, Nick found that if you didn’t do the cherry pick the results were much less hockey stick like for decentered PCs Then this March Nick explaned how McIntyre and McKitrick effectively truncated the Gaspe cedar series by fifty years, leaving, well not very much or really not very much global data for 1400-1450.   MBH had padded out that series from its end in 1404 by persistence, but a Steve McIntyre relied on a narrow reading (and Steve McIntyre is famed for such) of MBH 98 to justify that step, except they were very legalistic in not clearly explaining what they had done, until Nick Stokes worked his way through the thicket

Turkey Preparing for Syria Occupation?
September 25, 2014 0

Turkey Preparing for Syria Occupation?

By News Desk

Turkey in particular has served as a safe haven for ISIS terrorists for the past 3-4 years . In fact, maps showing ISIS’ territory across the Western media have clearly defined corridors leading directly from Turkish territory. The billions in cash, weapons, equipment, and even vehicles used to build what is now a mercenary force contesting power simultaneously in three nations – Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq – were provided by nations like Saudi Arabia and Qatar and funneled into terrorist hands by US CIA agents operating along Turkey’s border with Syria.  Despite the rhetorical shell game of renaming this mercenary force to confuse an unwitting public, no other explanation accounts for the scale of ISIS’ operations beyond concerted multinational state-sponsorship

US Strike on Syria is Desperation Incarnate
September 24, 2014 0

US Strike on Syria is Desperation Incarnate

By News Desk

The fact remains that the only genuine fight against Al Qaeda, ISIS, and other terrorist groups in the region, has been led by the Syrian government and its military .  Carving Off a "Terror Capital" for the West’s Proxies  Whatever it is that the US and its "Arab partners" are attacking in Syria at the moment, it is assuredly not ISIS.