It still doesn't give a scientific reason why it is okay to truncate the tree ring temperature graph at 1960 and paste the real thermometer temperature graphs o

It still doesn't give a scientific reason why it is okay to truncate the tree ring temperature graph at 1960 and paste the real thermometer temperature graphs on top of them, except for the fact that it makes one hell of a picture. That's the "hiding the decline" that most people are concerned about. This article completely dances around that.