Originally posted by Xywalan
A commentary on "climategate"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...nge-phil-jones

BTW, denialists like Steve McIntyre seem to be giant idiots. He babbles on and on about the "nature trick" but doesn't address the point: the tree-ring data (Briffa et al., i.e., most of the green lines in the graphs) was not matching the real measurements of temperature and it was deleted from the graph. I wonder how long does it take for that idiot to realize this issue. And how exactly that is "manipulation of the data".
Alot of non scientists are confused by this and think you can just take out the part that doesn't match no problem. This is not the case, If you're theory isn't valid from 1960 on. What is to say it isn't valid pre 1900? Nothing, that is why you need to find the root cause of why it is not valid from 1960 on and not just pretend like it never happened or keep adding ad hoc conditions to make it work. Its not exactly manipulating the data, its just flat bad science.