Any color, as long as it's black

-- by Horatio Algeranon

Whatever verdict BEST returns

After analysis adjourns

I am ready to embrace

Discordant music I will face

Let the chips fall where they may

I look forward to that day...

What's this they say?

There's just NO WAY --

That NOAA and the rest are right

That station bias is so slight

To not affect the upward trend

This WRONG result just will not stand.

Some said they would accept any results BEST returned, but are clearly now balking because the conclusions of BEST do not support their own claims (eg, about the significance of surface station bias).

Horatio was actually skeptical of Richard Muller's unsupported and hyperbolic claims (eg, about polar bears and the "BEST" moniker) from the start.