Originally Posted by Kernel Sanders

McIntyre's response to Mann 1998 was important, and led to several changes in paleoclimateology models. Subsequent reseach and a congressional investigation, however, found that while the analysis contained some weaknesses, and that Mann's stronger claims could not be supported, his overall reconstruction was solid. If you'd like to discuss further, please start a thread on the subject. This thread is about Mann's responses to the CRU emails and I'd rather not derail it into a debate over the hockey stick graph or more recent adjustments to it.