Climategate’s ‘Hide the Decline’: Sciencemag # 3: ‘Briffa and Osborn (Science 1999) had not just deleted the post=1960 decline, but had deleted the pre-1550 portion as well’
'The deletions contributing to an unwarranted rhetorical impression of consistency between the reconstructions, an impression that was capitalized upon in the commentary in the running text of Briffa and Osborn 1999'