Todd, did you actually think I was lying?
<p>'Mike's Nature trick' refers to the technique of plotting recent instrumental data along with the reconstructed data. This places recent global warming trends in the context of temperature changes over longer time scales.
skepticalscience.com
As I've said repeatedly now, the proportionality factor between ring thickness and temperature changed over the last century or so. This was well known in the field of dendrochronology. They wanted to hide the apparent discontinuity that would produce and used in essence a variable scaling factor
Todd, I don't see a lot of difference between a willful misinterpretation and a blatant, bold-faced lie. Do you?