Watts Up and Jo Nova are reporting that the Gergis/Karoly Hockey Stick paper has been withdrawn. You will recall the original story, widely covered by the lame-stream media, that a new analysis of proxy data showed the warming in the last 50 years was unprecedented in the past millennium. Here is how ACM reported the story:
ACM on 17 May 2012
Thanks to Hockey Stick Breaker in Chief, Steve McIntyre, the paper was put “on hold” after discovery of a “data processing error”.
Now it appears the paper has been withdrawn (see WUWT and Jo Nova).
[crickets chirping]
That’s the sound of the mainstream media’s response to the withdrawal…
Australian Climate Madness 
Another feather in the cap of the skeptics. Great
Predicable … sickening Global Government Agenda Bollocks.
The climate hypochondriacs have found that what they thought was a mosquto bite, was actually a dot of red ink.
No need to be alarmed any more guys !!
Will they give back the $300,000 as well?
And what has that climate change [person], David Karoly, said about it?
What a bloody joke!
Gergis et al was to be yet another [unconvincing] piece of work, to prop up the man-made global warming alarmism. But damn… the famous hockey stick buster was on the prowl, and busted this one well and truly on a timely basis!
The Gergis/Karoly Hockey Stick paper was supposed to be Australia’s contribution to the fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report due in 2014. We’ll need another science fiction substitute!
No- it’s OK- according to Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit the IPCC will be using the Gergis paper anyway.
Who really cares if it is withdrawn- just a mob of sceptics. It was peer reviewed before it was withdrawn and that’s what matters most. At least someone is thinking of the children.
It’s a good thing that the IPCC is not a company and Gergis et al isn’t part of a prospectus trying to flog us climate fizz! If they were, they’d be charged for misleading and deceptive conduct.
I guess Gillard was refering to the likes of Gergis when she declared on Q & A last year that every” reputable” climatologist supports the AGW theory .
[snip – agreed, but can’t publish!]
Hey check it out – another extreme ( and loony ) idea – dionsaurs farted themselves to death and caused prehistoric global warming.
I think the stink might have done more damage than the methane it produced……
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2140323/Dinosaurs-produced-flatulence-force-climate-change.html
And these people went to Uni , right?
What killed the dionosaurs – the Fart-o-saursues!!
What a joke…..
Disgraceful.
I notice Skeptical Science hasn’t made any mention of it