No legitimate climate scientist believes, nor ever could have believed, that Dr. Phil Jones ever even had any motive to attempt to hide any temperature decline. He was OBVIOUSLY talking about a decline in the quality of one stand of trees' rings, for use as temperature proxies, and only after 1960 when their use as proxies is unnecessary.
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There is no decline that any scientist would want to hide...
But consider a hypothetical climate reporter who really doesn't get the science, but does know the big names. Before very long, such a climate reporter should have supposed that the "Mike" who Dr. Jones meant is Michael Mann, who without a doubt is the biggest name in climate science. (Not climate policy, that's Al Gore. In climate science, it's Michael Mann, hands down.) Now, suppose that this scientifically mediocre, but diligent science reporter or climate reporter or environment reporter knows only that the quote involves Michael Mann, and a quote about some "decline" which might be controversial, or might be just a harmless discussion of technicalities, beyond the reporter's understanding. The way to check is to search Google Scholar for "Michael Mann decline." This very simplistic search reveals ... a paper on which the climatologist Michael Mann is the third listed author. Then text-searching that document for the word "decline" takes the reader to section 4, which clearly discusses a decline in the quality of temperature proxies.
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