Climategate Email Quotes on Dendrochronology, Ice Cores, and Coral Dating

I have to confess that I understood almost none of this, but maybe all will become clear with a little background. Let's take it one little step at a time.What are "evolutionary multiproxy dating methods"? Google comes up dry.--Percy

So the topic you'd like to discuss is problems with dating methods as revealed by the Climategate emails, and how these dating methods no longer provide support for evolutionary timescales? If so, could you fix your opening post to make that more clear. And if not, then sorry, but could you explain your topic again?

Yes, much clearer, very nice.Now please help me understand what point you're making with this: Is it the "ice cores are no good" that is the key portion? Or the part about Mann? Both? In any case, is it your interpretation that the author is saying ice core dating is no good? And anyone without intimate knowledge of climategate isn't going to know what part Mann played, so you need to fill in the details. Sorry to string this out on you, but there's just not enough context yet. I just spent 15 minutes reading about Mann so I could figure out what point you were trying to make, and I'm still not sure.