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From "It's the Anomalies, Stupid" (apologies to @GStephanopoulos) in "The Hockey Stick & the Climate Wars" (#HSCW amazon.com/Hockey-Stick-C…).

Time we start taking seriously the possibility that climate models are missing a La Nina (rather than El Nino)-like response to warming. ImageImage
Here's an article we published in @Nature back in 2003 that was suggestive of a La Nina-like response to warming (via paleoclimate evidence for an El Nino-like response to volcanic cooling): nature.com/articles/natur… Image
Here's some followup modeling work we did (Journal of Climatee, 2005) that reproduces the relationship seen in the proxy data: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/… Image
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Twenty five years ago, on this #EarthDay, Apr 22 1998, the #HockeyStick reconstruction of temperatures was born (nature.com/articles/33859). Here's an interview I did on @CBSEveningNews with @johnrobertsFox (anchor @DanRather):
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The Hockey Stick was extended to the past 1000 years in 1999 (agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/19…) and appeared in it's most recognizable form in the @IPCC_CH 3rd Assessment Report "Summary for Policymakers" (ipcc.ch/site/assets/up…) Image
Sorry #DenierBots, the original #HockeyStick was readily reproduced with publicly available data & methods description by other researchers:
link.springer.com/article/10.100… Image
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Short thread on what it was like to be a climate scientist a decade ago for some, courtesy of excerpts from "The Hockey Climate Wars" (amazon.com/Hockey-Stick-C…)
1. Being targeted for assault by national white supremacist groups for being part of a purported Jewish climate cabal.
2. Actionable death threats against you and your family. FBI testing your office for anthrax after receipt of a powder-containing envelope.
3. Investigations by Congressional Republican Committee Chairs aimed at intimidating you and discrediting you and your research.
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