The post leads off with Gavin Schmidt’s complaint that my comments on Tiljander exemplify a pathology that obstructs communication between climate scientists and skeptics.

How would Schmidt say that the following practices are relevant to that kind of obstruction:

a) extensive censoring of adverse comments

b) editing and otherwise distorting comments

c) replying to comments with personal and off topic comments

d) making comments about someone’s postion and not providing the opportunity to reply

Within the past fortnight, there was a useful discussion of the use of the Lake Korttajarvi proxies in Mann08, at Keith Kloor's blog Collide-a-scape, The Main Hindrance to Dialogue (and Detente). The post leads off with Gavin Schmidt’s complaint that my comments on Tiljander exemplify a pathology that obstructs communication between climate scientists and skeptics.

On June 27, Arthur Smith posted on Mann08′s use of Tiljander, Where’s the fraud?. As the title indicates, his focus is on accusations of fraud. I point out in his (heavily moderated) comment section that this emphasis is misplaced and unhelpful.

In March, I walked through the use of the Tiljander X-Ray Density (XRD) data series by Mann08 in the post The Newly-Discovered Jarvykortta Proxy — II.