[andy58-in-nh]

Even before this latest revelation of collaborative calamity-mongering, Lil' Mikey's "hockey stick" graph was proven to be a fraud. Researchers have demonstrated conclusively that he created it only by omitting two crucial anomalous time periods from his calculations: the so-called "Little Ice Age" and the "Medieval Warm Period". Whoops. Where did I put those five hundred years?

And about those famous tree core samples from the Ural Mountains (not, as popularly supposed, from Al Gore): over three hundred samples were collected, but they used only ten of them, from a total of three (3) trees. It must have been an oversight. Yep, that was it. Couldn't possibly be the work of a bunch of cherry-picking, grant-grabbing socialist hacks, now could it?

[Tenacious 1]

You seem to be in the know. Can you explain the process in which “tree ring data” is converted into temperature data?

From what little I know, they can measure the growth and health of a tree which tells something about the rainfall or dormacy of the tree. But do you know how they calculate to a degree what the temp was for a certain time period?

I could use some knowledge here.