Upside Down and Bassackwards

-- by Horatio Algeranon

If blogs were science,
Then hearsay reliance,
Would be the Golden Rule.

Outlandish tales,
Of Bigfoot trails,
And other tabloid fuel.

"Inverted graphs",
"Mendacious staffs"
Would be the standard plots.

Just as we,
Already see
On the blog by Tony Watts.

Anthony Watts recently made the claim on his blog (Watts Up With That?) that the "hockey stick" temperature reconstruction of Michael Mann is upside down. (IQ Test: Which of these is not upside down? --Answer: the global temperature graph)

And the comments below the post are rife with charges of outright fraud.