It is telling that people who rely on his blog even 10 years later do not learn about the
correction notice we published in the same journal
immediately thereafter,
see: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmckitri/research/gdptemp.html showing results before and after the
correction, notably showing that the original conclusions all stood; not to mention the series of papers I've published since then on the same topic without the cosine issue arising, because it was always irrelevant to the actual issues (
see http://www.rossmckitrick.com/temperature-data-quality.html).