Bristlecones tend to clog regular plumbing

Dr. Bradley (of MBH98 hockey stick fame) really outdoes himself this time.

‘Scientifically, “the hockey stick is a brick outhouse, very robust,’’ as Bradley put it.

The reliability of his findings has been confirmed by more than a decade of testing and scrutiny by the field. And yet the campaign to discredit what he and almost all of his colleagues accept as the fact of human-influenced global warming has made significant gains in popular and political culture over the past decade. “

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2011/06/08/playing_rough/