Must read at Watts Up With That, titled “Climategate: The Smoking Code.”

Check out the “valadj” series of numbers (the “fudge factors” used to “Apply a VERY ARTIFICIAL correction for the decline”) which appear in CRU source file “briffa_Sep98_d.pro.” (To which Andrew Montford had alerted us some days ago, but . . .)

Here’s what they look like when graphed:

Add a little fudge, and it’s eternally hockey season.

UPDATE: This item has been amended since its initial posting. The code was applied to temperature proxy values, not temperature readings.