Mannomatic filtering...

Mannomatic filtering...  The technical types over at Climate Audit are reverse-engineering Michael Mann's temperature data manipulations (the ones that led to his infamous “hockey stick” graph).  It's fascinating reading (including the comments) if you're at all interested in the data underlying the IPCC's repeated declarations of impeding climate doom.  This particular investigation is close to one of the things at the heart of what makes me most skeptical of the warmists' position: the opaque, secret, and (as shown by ClimateGate revelations) deliberate manipulation of the data used to support it.  Close behind it: the reliance on climate models that have utterly failed in their correspondence to reality...