The Greens will be thrown under the bus for this, wich is actually rather sad, alternative energy is on itself not a bad thing, proper care for the enviroment is not bad at all, and so on.

entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity" and this is excactly what Jones and Mann did with the "Trick to hide the decline"

Don't misunderstand, this is not about the lack of rising temperatures in the past 10 years wich can not be explained by the computermodels and the globalwarming theory. Its about the failure of treerings to show a rise in temperatures where our thermometers did from about 1980 (or 1960 in Keith Briffa's case).

Its about a failure of the theory that treerings are a thermometer of temperatures and climate-conditions in the past.

Now why did they need this theory? To show that the temperature rise in the 20th century was unprecedented. But there was still the Medival Warm Period and The Little Ice Age, in order to weaken those they selected tree-data (trees that have special growing conditions) sets that showed little of the MWP and LIA, and that is where the problems began because they started to divert from real world temperatures in the 1980'ties.

In order to set this straight, Mann and his ilk stopped the data-plots around 1980 and replaced the missing treerings with real world temperatures. They knew that they would get in trouble for this if it was found out, and that is the point where they entrenched themselves, retreated to their ivory towers and making up all kinds of bogus stories why the data and the methods used where not going to be released.

And now we found out, and is shown what sceptics suspected for years. The theory does not work.

Robert van der Veeke Basugasubasubasu Basugasubakuhaku Gasubakuhakuhaku!! "Better is the enemy of good enough." Dr. Mikoyan of the Mikoyan Gurevich Design Bureau.