Good to Steve M back in the saddle at CA, where he notes some comments of Keith Briffa's that would seem to condemn much of the IPCC's millennial temp reconstruction corpus to oblivion:
I very much welcome the strong position taken by Briffa and coauthors against the use of radially deformed tree ring data. I look forward to the prompt application of these standards by Mann and others to strip bark chronologies. Given realclimate’s endorsement of [Briffa 2013], I presume that realclimate will urge that all reconstructions relying on bristlecones be recalled pending assessment of radial deformation and inhomogeneity according to [Briffa 2013] standards.