treeline

Discovery of Data for One of the “Other 26” Jacoby Series

We’ve long discussed the bias imparted by ex post selection of data depending on whether it went up in the 20th century.  Likening such after-the-fact selection to a drug study carried out only on survivors. The Jacoby and d’Arrigo 1989 network was a classic example: the original article reported that they had sampled 36 northern treeline […]