How art thou bullshitting? Tis the starfish flexing and hyperbole is the moon.
To whit.
To whit.
Quote:That actual impact on the bristlecone calculations in very, very minor in the big picture; and the comments, especially concerning A & W are taken out of context. Say it with me. Multidisciplinary; multiple fields of science converging on a single theory, each one bringing a bevy of correlating data to the picture. It is not as you state 'critical to quite a bit of Epsilon's argument.' I like using hyperbole as much as the next billions and billions of people; but critical? Thus, for the same reasons, I call bullshit.
On the climate side of things Mann's work is critical to quite a bit of your argument, Epsilon, being referenced in such things as the IPCC's fourth report and its validity has been called into question. McIntyre says it's worthless. Wahl and Ammann say it's worthless without bristlecones. The NAS panel say that strip-bark sites (which include all the relevant bristlecones) should be avoided in temperature reconstructions for a variety of reasons.