The importance of context

Matt Ridley
"Far from cherry-picking, McKitrick was explicitly testing the hypothesis that Suzuki had advanced, namely that the local weather had warmed in the autumn. Suddenly Schneider's nastiness seems a whole lot nastier. He gave a wholly wrong impression of McKitrick's point to his correspondents. His email being secret until last week, none of us knew about this -- least of all McKitrick."
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A Somewhat Late Response to Schneider(Climate Audit)
"Contrary to Schneider’s claim, I was not using the October-November temperature trend from Erie PA as a measure of global climate, I was using it as a measure of the October-November temperature trend for Erie PA. Schneider was careless in his reading, remiss in his recollection, and obnoxious in broadcasting his opinion to his colleagues."