All of the sudden, it isn’t the "hottest period in 2000 years" anymore

Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit strikes again. Watts Up With That? comments: The quote of the week is: I hardly know where to begin in terms of commentary on this difference. - Steve McIntyre, Climate Audit in Yamal: A “Divergence” Problem The graph above shows what happens to the “Hockey Stick” after additional tree ring data, recently released (after a long and protracted fight over data access) is added to the analysis of Hadley’s archived tree ring data in Yamal, Russia. All of the sudden, it isn’t the “hottest period in 2000 years” anymore. Read it all.