Kommentator comments

Sure, Japan used to catch whales off its own coast, until the Americans came along and took all the bounty, leaving none more for the Japanese.

Insightful comments from people who have no idea about what really happened, yet are dumping all over this lady they have never met.

Yuko Ogura is an actress? Who knew. She is a cutie, though.

Huckabee (of whom I am no fan) did the right thing at the time. At 17, the suspect had been given a sentence of something like 60 years for robbery. You can't just can't keep everyone in jail forever on the rare chance that they may commit this kind of crime. But I don't understand why he was out on bail this time.

From RealClimate: The paper in question is the Mann, Bradley and Hughes (1998) Nature paper on the original multiproxy temperature reconstruction, and the ‘trick’ is just to plot the instrumental records along with reconstruction so that the context of the recent warming is clear. Scientists often use the term “trick” to refer to a “a good way to deal with a problem”, rather than something that is “secret”, and so there is nothing problematic in this at all. As for the ‘decline’, it is well known that Keith Briffa’s maximum latewood tree ring density proxy diverges from the temperature records after 1960 (this is more commonly known as the “divergence problem”–see e.g. the recent discussion in this paper) and has been discussed in the literature since Briffa et al in Nature in 1998 (Nature, 391, 678-682). Those authors have always recommend not using the post 1960 part of their reconstruction, and so while ‘hiding’ is probably a poor choice of words (since it is ‘hidden’ in plain sight), not using the data in the plot is completely appropriate, as is further research to understand why this happens.

Stupid, one-sided article by a guy who doesn't know a thing about science. The crime would be to take this article seriously. The "hide the decline" story, for example, has been taken completely out of context and misinterpreted badly by the author. There was nothing nefarious about what was done.

The "awards" category in Japan has been diluted horribly by both over-proliferation and arbitrariness of choices. Printing these articles is a waste of space and time.

She's the one in the red hat and red tights. Maybe the original picture had more than six people but got cropped?