Three Trees in Siberia?

Per Rush, the tree ring study was based on three cherry-picked trees in Siberia. Cites UK Register:

Controversy has been raging since 1995, when an explosive paper by Keith Briffa (http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/people/briffa/) at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia asserted that that the medieval warm period was actually really cold, and recent warming is unusually warm. Both archaeology and the historical accounts, Briffa was declaring, were bunk. Briffa relied on just three cores from Siberia to demonstrate this.

Robert Tracinski on ClimateGate.

And this:

ClimateGate Development: CEI Notifies NASA of Intention to Sue [Chris Horner]

Today, on behalf of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, I filed three Notices of Intent to File Suit against NASA and its Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), for those bodies' refusal — for nearly three years — to provide documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act.

Is Al Gore bankrupt? How's that book-signing going today?

More. Minnesotans for Global Warming:)

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