re: #284 Cineaste

Furthermore, the notion that thousands and thousands of scientists around the globe at dozens or even hundreds of different institutions have cleverly all agreed to collude is, well, absurd. That is one of the great canards of the anti-AGW argument.

No-one is saying that there is some sort of conspiracy involving thousands of scientists.

You keep ignoring the FACT that the whole IPCC case as regards warming based on temperature charts - is the work of a handful of scientists. And there are clear enough signs that they work together.

Mann, Jones, Briffa in particular. Their work is pivotal.

Who else has produced long-run temperature charts for the IPCC, quoted in all the successive IPCC reports, pray ?