“As for “hide the decline,” Jones wasn’t referring to declines in temperature; he was referring to a drop seen in certain types of tree-ring data after 1960. And he wasn’t referring to Mann’s work—but to that of another scientist, Keith Briffa of the University of East Anglia. Pre-1960, Briffa’s tree-ring density records track the temperature records. Post-1960, there is a decline in the response of certain trees to temperature (possibly due to pollution): the actual recorded temperatures are consistently higher than what the tree-ring data would predict. The temperature records are the more important and reliable data, so Briffa had to discard the tree-ring “decline” records. But the decline wasn’t hidden. It was clearly discussed and labeled in Briffa’s paper. And Mann’s paper didn’t rely on any of those data.”

“Mann has written that it was a colleague who first noted the graph’s resemblance to a hockey stick lying flat”

Some colleagues have noticed that it was flat lying.

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/3648

Don’t dare to question his accuracy or veracity, else you will be smeared by people like this writer….

on “Nobel Mann” see footnote 69, page 33:

Mann’s lawyers file counter motion against SLAPP motion of National Review

Mann’s lawyers still flogging false claims that he has been perfectly vindicated:

“…For example, in 2003, mining consultant Stephen McIntyre and University of Guelph Economics Professor Ross McKitrick published a paper in Energy and Environment purporting to demonstrate that the Hockey Stick Graph was an artifact of bad data. A later article by the same authors in the journal Geophysical Research Letters suggested that the “hockey stick” shape was an artifact of a faulty statistical approach. Subsequently, every peer-reviewed study that has examined McIntyre and McKitrick’s claims has found them to be inaccurate. Nonetheless, Defendants continue to point to McIntyre and McKitrick’s work as evidence of “data errors” and faulty statistics underlying Dr. Mann’s work. See CEI Anti-SLAPP Mem. at 9. But significantly, at no point have either McIntyre and McKitrick ever accused Dr. Mann of misconduct or fraud….”

Apparently Michael Mann isn’t doing anything new. He’s just reusing an old trick.

If this is the problem, you can fix it by disabling the Assistant and refreshing the page.

There will be more on Mann and in particular his latest defamation case. The political aspects of the climate debate will be a focus of the blog, especially freedom of speech issues.

I’m new to blogging and am experiencing some technical difficulties. Replies to comments (nested) were disappearing. When I followed the referral link here no comments were visible in Firefox. But I can see them in Chrome. I suspect it may be an issue with the comment plug-in CA Assistant. Anybody here experienced anything similar?

There is a long and detailed post on a new blog, which examines Michael Mann’s extremely odd online behaviors in recent months. Highly recommended to all interested in the topics of this thread.

[h/t to "Breath of Fresh Air" posting link at Bishop Hill - I know nothing about the blog or blogger beyond what is presented there]

Curious ‘scrubbing’ of Michael Mann’s online record

It’s about 2 minutes in.