I do a reasonable amount of financial time series analysis. Mann and Hansen have made every mistake in the book. Its even worse because the noise level is higher, so you can throw anything into the pot, and still get what looks like results.

The discrepancy of measured and proxy forecasts is a good example. No doubt it will be solved byh recalibrating until recent dates. Then the problem will repeat a few years later.

Why not go on the attack. Pick an area that has a large size such as Africa, but a few recording stations. Should be easy to show that there isn’t a warming, or that any conclusions are bunk. Hansen et al then have to attack, and the attack has to be that their evidence is wrong.

In other words, pick off large area, small stations on a hit list.

If you show South America, Africa, Antartica, most of Asia, oceans as having no evidence, crap evidence, or no evidence of warming, it leaves 2% of the US etc.

They can’t argue a greater weight, since they have roundly trumpted the US as being only 2% of the globe. Not saying what the weight is in the analysis. Sneaky one that.

Nick