Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up? Re-Mix. « Climate Audit

There's an amusing little incident with the deleted "original" data set that was posted up for a few minutes at Mann's website - you know, the data set that was first demonstrably referenced by a CA reader in the early morning of Sep 5. (I'll reserve comment for now on issues relating to the timestamp of this data set and the Gavin Schmidt hyperlink to it, presently pointing to a data version that did not exist at the time that the hyperlink was supposedly created.)

Within a day, on the afternoon of Sep 5, the data set was deleted and replaced with another data set, again without notice, in a bewildering concatenation of replacements that is reminiscent of our experience with the Hansen's GISS data almost a year to the day ago. However, both myself and others took the precaution of downloading the Sep 4 version as soon as we saw it - just in case it disappeared. Not an imprudent precaution, given its almost immediate deletion.