re: #89 Bagua

Well now it is you who are being silly freetoken, the CRU data is key to the IPCC AR4, this is not in dispute. It is one of three major temperature reconstructions and therefore one leg of the stool has been kicked out.

It is denial to say otherwise.

It is simply ridiculous to assert that the IPCC AR4 can stand when one of its major sources is called into question.

You can be so dishonest sometimes Bagua. In this thread you specifically said that if we were to concede and throw out the CRU data that you would not follow up with this specific kind of “one of few” attack against NASA’s GISTEMP.. Now you are doing exactly that, even though those other records support identical conclusions, and even though all the attacks against CRU rely on the deliberate misinterpretation of stolen private correspondence. GISTEMP isn’t one leg of a stool, it is a pillar that supports the same logical conclusions. It seems that your desire to throw out the CRU data was always an avenue to attack the IPCC conclusions that are self-evident based on several datasets. Your insistence that the entire report be thrown out because the IPCC arbitrarily picked CRU for most citations is the worst kind of pedantic obstructionism.