NOTE: this will be the top post at WUWT for a couple of days, see below for new stories – Anthony Sticky Wicket – phrase, meaning: “A difficult situation”.Oh, my. There is a new and important study on temperature proxy reconstructions (McShane and Wyner 2010) submitted into the Annals of Applied Statistics and is listed to be published in the next issue. According to Steve McIntyre, this is one of the “top statistical journals”. This paper is a direct and serious rebuttal to the proxy reconstructions of Mann. It seems watertight on the surface, because instead of trying to attack...