Paging Mike Mann – your dendrochronologist will see you now | Watts Up With That?

This, IMHO, is why Mann’s rendition of the hockey stick is unsupportable, its all speculation based. Anyone who knows Liebig’s Law understands this.

Mann’s tree reconstructions are known to be statistically crap, and even if they weren’t, the assumption that these trees primarily measure temperature is an absurd speculation.

World pays Ecuador to save forest

AN ALLIANCE of European local authorities, governments, US film stars, Japanese shops, soft drink companies and Russian foundations have stepped in to prevent oil companies from extracting 900 million barrels of crude oil from one of the world's most biologically rich tracts of land.

The ''crowdfunding'' initiative had raised $US116 million, said the United Nations, enough to temporarily halt the exploitation of the 1870 square kilometres of ''core'' Amazonian rainforest known as Yasuni National Park in Ecuador.

...Ecuador agreed to halt plans to drill the oilfield if, over a 13-year period, it could raise 50 per cent of the $US7.6 billion revenue being lost by not mining the oil.

Double-Blind Violin Test: Can You Pick The Strad? : Deceptive Cadence : NPR

Now, what does that mean for all the years of research studying the old violins — the design, the wood, the varnish, even the glue? If no one can tell the difference, what's the point? 

The Fingerprint Of Clueless Climate Posers | Real Science

From 1910 to 1939, winters in the the Arctic around Spitzbergen warmed by nearly 16 degrees – despite very little increase in atmospheric CO2.

Conclusion 1 : Cook has no idea what he is talking about.
Conclusion 2 : Arctic warming is cyclical and has very little to do with humans.