His point is only this – that the trick would have worked about as well even if the end of the truncated Briffa reconstruction hadn’t been tucked into a back layer. The main aspect of the IPCC trick are of course (1) the deletion of post-1960 values to hide the decline: (2) secondarily, the modification of the smooth by using plugged values in the forward pad rather than actual values; (3) ending in a tangle of spaghetti with a color scheme so that the dangling endpoint isn’t distinct; (4) having the endpoint in a back layer so it’s that much harder to see.

DC argues that the 4th element is relatively unimportant to the successful functioning of the trick. I agree that it is less important than the first three elements. Obviously the deletion of post-1960 values is the key element of the trick to hide the decline.

http://deepclimate.org/2010/05/11/how-to-be-a-climate-auditor-part-1-pretty%C2%A0pictures/

BTW, this site also disparages Wegman. The blog’s owner is Canadian.

In my opinion, the the enthusiasm I’ve seen among some members of the IP bar is unhealthy. I recently had an argument with a couple who seriously believed that college baseketball players from a famously successful team in the 1970s should get royalties on a video game that let kids play them. Anyway, since NY Times v. Sulivan, I don’t think there’s much room for Mann’s suit, at least in the U.S., and I don’t think that fact will be lost on the courts.

I’d love the chance to argue this case in front of an appellate court.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/04/27/climatedepots-morano-mann-lawsuit-just-goes-show-you-how-mighty-have-fall

Popcorn, anyone ?

When you view a web page, all of the images and files are stored in your browsers cache, so that if the same file is requested again, your computer gets it from the browser cache instead of downloading the file again.

Web servers cache frequently-requested items to improve performance.

The Google cache is Google’s temporary copy of indexed websites, as at the last time that Google looked at the site and memorised the contents for search indexing. You can view the cached version of most sites through Google by clicking on the ‘cached’ link in the search results.

In the case of the video, ‘cache’ will be being used to describe the various copies of the video made and posted all around the internet. It’s a technically inaccurate description since they are copies and are not likely to expire and be removed. And Google does not store large items like videos in it’s search cache.

Para 30 (e)
Steve McIntyre was not/not “the man who broke Mr. Weaver’s hockey stick.”
—–(—– he doesn’t own one, Mann does —–)——
Contrary to repeated claims in The National Post, the Michael Mann “hockey stick” has not been discredited.

2 of his posts are also cited as repeat publications by a third party of the alleged defamation.