Sometimes they forget

http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/sometimes-they-forget/
The sophistry here is that we have a history of post-hoc selection of methods (hide the decline), brow-beating of those with different results (the Trenberth travesty), and blocking of papers which refute results (many references). Now we find that many more Yamal region proxy series were available than stated and a reconstruction from such a strong hockey stick temperature region (usually a 3 month project) has taken years to reach the public eye. Unsurprisingly, now that a basic estimate was published by Steve McIntyre, the data doesn't seem to support the six sigma Yamal trend. So, in context, the request is hardly unreasonable.