[stormer]

I didn't say he doesn't understand it; I said that given the explanation he's provided, he doesn't seem to. He completely ignores its purpose.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You have a point. Briggs often “plays cute”. He did the same thing in a post belittling statistical significance. If it weren't for statistical significance we would have no way of chosing between Newton and Jean Dixon.

[Ratman83]

Or he is pointing out the fact that peer review in the climate feild has been corupted.