Thread by @ClimateAudit

despite years of being told that defects in prior hockey stick temperature reconstructions "don't matter" because the Hockey Stick "doesn't "matter", the first figure of new IPCC Summary for Policy-Makers is a Hockey Stick. Here is detailed blog commentary climateaudit.org/2021/08/11/the…

2/ summary: we may have thought that the data and statistics of prior hockey sticks was bad, but the data and statistics of the new IPCC poster hockey stick is "worse than we thought".

3/ I remind readers who may not be familiar with my approach that showing that IPCC didn't prove their point does not prove that Medieval Warm Period was warmer than present or that there wasn't substantial warming in 20th century.

4/ readers interested in my own thoughts on somewhat more informative proxies - as opposed to hypercriticism of incompetent IPCC work - may be interested in this blog article climateaudit.org/2021/03/02/mil….

5/ when ordinary Canadians hear the phrase "warmest in more than 100,000 years", very few know that Canada was under a mile of ice for most of that period.

6/ so when Michael Mann and IPCC zealots demand that we "Make the Climate Great Again", people, especially Canadians, need to think whether the climate was really all that "great" in the Ice Age, when there was a mile of ice over most of Canada.

7/ my position is that reasonable people can disagree on whether a mile of ice over Ottawa would be a good thing or not (depending, I guess, on how many Trudeau cabinet ministers were entombed under ice). But I oppose a mile of ice over Toronto.

8/ we should all be thankful that we don't live in Canada in a random year in the last 100,000 years. Notwithstanding the Penguin-like mad scientists demanding that we Make Climate Great Again.

9/ For those climate scientists that complain that it's the warmest year in 100,000 years and demand that we Make Climate Great Again: here's a map of Canada 20,000 years ago. We're lucky that we live now and not then.