Teams are compromised of individuals who have their own integrity and are responsible for their own performance, but also owe
their existence as team members to the productivity and longevity of the group.
Briffa et al. could be cited repeatedly by — probably was — Jones, Mann, Trenberth and other «
team»
members,
as well
as by Briffa himself, and none of them would have even acknowledged the
existence of a «divergence» publicly.