Below is an important presentation by Steve McIntyre to the Heartland Conference on the history of the tree ring shenanigans of Jones, Briffa and Mann, as well as the phony efforts to investigate the dispute. It is a very good dispassionate summary of how the hockey stick cape job was perpetrated in IPCC Report, IMO.
McIntyre does not address the issue of how or whether this behaviour is shaped by the need to acquire grant money. Chuck
See Also:
The Divergence Problem and the Failure of Tree Rings for Reconstructing Past Climate
Written by Craig Loehle, PhD, World Climate Report | 25 October 2008
