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Thursday, 24 April 2025

Randall Carlson explains the hockey stick trick used to incite fear about global warming

 Over many decades, several thousand papers were published establishing the Medieval Warm Period from about 900 AD to 1300 AD and the Little Ice Age from about 1300 AD to 1915 AD as global climate changes.

It came as quite a surprise when, in 1998, Mann et al. concluded that neither the Medieval Warming Period nor the Little Ice Age happened. The fudged temperature graph became known as the “hockey stick graph,” but it should be referred to as the “hockey stick trick.”

The graph was prominently featured in the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Third Assessment Report and is used to this day to incite fear of man-made climate change.

Randall Carlson is an architect and architectural designer who has appeared on podcasts where he discusses climate change and geological events. He argues that the Earth naturally goes through climate cycles, that current mass extinctions may not be unprecedented and that human influence on climate change is overstated for political reasons.

“The impact that we are having on the environment … is quite minimal … they’re using the impact of humans on the climate as, now, a political issue more than it is a scientific issue,” he said on the Koncrete podcast in 2021...<<<Read More>>>...