[cogitator]

Covered here extensively:

Researcher's question key global-warming study

The McIntyre-McKitrick paper is getting a lot of publicity for a paper that will likely turn out to be very, very wrong about what it tried to do. Apparently the mistakes in the paper haven't gotten out to the editorial writers who only read press releases.

[Dan Evans]

The good thing about all this publicity is that it will force Mann to respond. He originally rebuffed inqueries from McIntyre and McKitrick and even said he had no intention to reply. Now that the klieg lights are on him he's on the spot.