Comments by Hans von Storch Director of Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS Research Center, Germany, and Professor at the Meteorological Institute, University.

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Comments by Hans von Storch Director of Institute for Coastal Research, GKSS Research Center, Germany, and Professor at the Meteorological Institute, University of Hamburg, Germany U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, July 19, 2006 Hearing “Questions Surrounding the ‘Hockey Stick’ Temperature Studies: Implications for Climate Change Assessments”

Scientific aspects:  The regression-type methods of the so-called “hockey-stick” studies of Mann, Bradley and Hughes (MBH) suffer from a number of problems, which should have been addressed before the “hockey-stick” was elevated to an authoritative description of the temperature history of the past 1000 years. ●  The claim by the IPCC TAR that there is reliable evidence that climate is beginning to change due to human action was based on a number of different lines of argument, which are insensitive to the validity of the MBH studies.  The present debate about the validity of the hockey-stick is of marginal relevance for the detection of present anthropogenic climate change. The major problems are not of statistical nature but are related to the social practice of climate change science.

Wegman-report  We have examined how serious the error of biased centering would be on the overall results, given a temperature history reminiscent to the IPCC 1990 version – the effect is very minor.  Other aspects may be more relevant, such as - the usage of the trend as key element for training the regression model, - the method of a-posteriori “scaling” so that the variances of the temperature and the derived temperature match during the training period.  We welcome the suggestion to invest much more efforts to examine the error structure in deriving temperature data from proxies – inhomogeneities in the proxies; instationarities in the link “proxy – temperature”.

Quality-control in the process of climate change science :  Parts of climate change science, in particular paleo-climatic reconstructions have suffered from gate keeping and incestuous usage of reviewers.  Editors and science managers have failed to ensure reproducibility of key results.  Nature and Science have a bias towards “interesting results”.  In the IPCC process experts assess their own work.  Climate change science has suffered from the limiting action of gate keepers and a public preference of “interesting results”. Climate change science should provide stakeholders with a broad range of options and not narrow this range to a reduced number of options preferred by certain worldviews.

Acceptance of IPCC in the community, 1996, 2003 Bray, pers. comm.

Cimate change science in the cultural context.  The concept of anthropogenic climate change is not new in western culture. ●  Climate change science is post-normal, i.e., it goes along with high uncertainties and high relevance. The boundaries between value-driven agendas and curiosity-driven science get blurred.  There is considerable influence of extra-scientific agendas on the scientific process of climate change studies. The process of climate change studies needs to be analysed and accompanied by social and policy scientists.