“The phrase ‘hide the decline’ was shorthand for providing a composite representation of long-term temperature changes made up of recent instrumental data and earlier tree-ring based evidence, where it was absolutely necessary to remove the incorrect impression given by the tree rings that temperatures between about 1960 and 1999 (when the email was written) were not rising, as our instrumental data clearly showed they were.”
He was better at “hiding the decline” than he is at hiding the BS.
The man is living proof that figures lie, and liars figure.
It’s more than the trees.
Everything he says telegraphs that “the science is” not “settled.”