No Robert the interesting part is the 160. Before O’Donnell, Steig had to submit a Corrigenda because their confidence intervals were way off. That was published some where in nature. That could be overlooked by someone unfamiliar with the paper’s history. But,
“Comiso, Steig’s coauthor and a coordinating lead author (big dog) of the IPCC cryosphere chapter, has this reference from the ZOD:
“Studies of surface temperature conclude on widespread warming of Antarctica since 1957 (Barrett et al.,54 2009; Comiso, 2010; Steig et al., 2009)”.
Three references are given to support “widespread warming”. Surprisingly, Barrett et al. says not one thing about widespread warming and is in fact a borehole-proxy study of a very small region of the Antarctic adjacent to the peninsula. The next reference ,Comiso 2010, is a reference to a book he wrote which addresses only satellite data since 1980′s, it is not peer reviewed AND it contains factual inaccuracies about trends in the Antarctic. ” From http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/business-as-usual/
Of course, to you, this is science at it finest 