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</div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Bradley was a contributing author to the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Climate_Change" title="Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">IPCC</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC_Third_Assessment_Report" title="IPCC Third Assessment Report" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">TAR</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/?src=/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/558.htm" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">[1]</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">. Bradley worked on reconstructing the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record_of_the_past_1000_years" title="Temperature record of the past 1000 years" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">temperature record of the past 1000 years</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> with </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E.Mann" title="Michael E. Mann" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Michael E. Mann</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_K.Hughes" title="Malcolm K. Hughes" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Malcolm K. Hughes</a>,</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> an eminent dendrologist. This work (for which is he is publicly best known, although scientifically his contributions to assembling surface temperature records are only rivaled by Phil Jones) figured prominently in the IPCC TAR </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summary_for_policymakers" title="Summary for policymakers" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">SPM</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_S.Bradley#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">[1]</a></sup><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> In 2005, the Chair of the US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, Rep. </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Barton" title="Joe Barton" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Joe Barton</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">(R-Texas) demanded that Bradley provide a </span><i style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">detailed accounting</i><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> of the data and funding of his research on climate change.</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_S.Bradley#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">[2]</a></sup><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> Barton specifically asked for responses to various allegations made by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_McIntyre" title="Stephen McIntyre" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Stephen McIntyre</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_McKitrick" title="Ross McKitrick" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Ross McKitrick</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> about the Mann, Bradley and Hughes papers.</span><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_S.Bradley#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">[3]</a></sup><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> In Bradley's response, he finds the assertions of McIntyre and McKitrick to be without worth, and recommends a commentary by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt" title="Gavin Schmidt" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Gavin Schmidt</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">on the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealClimate" title="RealClimate" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">RealClimate</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> website (</span><span class="citation web" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Schmidt" title="Gavin Schmidt" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Gavin Schmidt</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=121" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">"Dummies guide to the latest "Hockey Stick" controversy"</a>.</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">) as providing a very good guide to the issues. </span><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_S.Bradley#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">[4]</a></sup></div><div>==</div></div>