Comment on Hegerl et al. react to the Uncertainty Monster paper by lurker

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“hide the decline” means “fudge the data” and you can dance around that until the Arctic refreezes, but it is what it is.
“The team”, are, as they like to point out, the smartest guys in the room. They did not simply use that- and so many other- terms as a result of poor word choice,and they are not just ‘boys being boys’.