‘hide the decline’ – worse than we thought — ‘Mann et al did not merely delete data after 1960, they deleted data from 1940 on…’
'For most analysts,the seemingly unavoidable question at this point would be –if tree rings didn't respond to late 20th century warmth,how would one know that they didn't do the same thing in response to possible medieval warmth –a question that remains unaddressed years later'