On "Mike's Nature Trick"

"I've just completed Mike's nature trick of adding in the real temps to end series for the past 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onward) and from 1961 for Keith to hide the decline."......Phil Jones, University of East Anglia.......TO HIDE THE DECLINE! Please, somebody explain to me how this is somehow benign. These folks were using some sort of a gimmick to hide the fact that the bristlecone pine tree-rings were not, NOT, reflecting the actual temperatures and that they therefore could not have been even remotely accurate going back multiple centuries. This is abject dishonesty, folks, pure and simple, and the fact that there are seemingly people out there who want to mitigate it is disappointing and a sad, sorrowful state of the science.