Please click your link and actually read the search results. Trick is a surname. Try http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=trick+-autor%3Atrick&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0 and see how much "trick" is used as "clever method" or "correction". If the tree ring data is wrong recently, and there is no verifyable explanation, it is a bad idea to use that data to describe the temperature in the past. It is a bad sign that data has to be adjusted to be convincing enough. Especially while keeping part of the source data closed. Some people don't like to be manipulated, even if it is for the greater good.

Real science makes predictions about the results of experiments or future developments. Ignoring evidence when it does not fit the theory is not science either.

Yes and those colonists came there and stayed for 500 years. Longer than the European colonists in America or Australia so far. They died because the climate got colder. We don't know why it was called Greenland but they were able to herd cows and sheep.

Although i agree with most of your post, this is not strictly fair. My parents visited a small factory in Kenya a few years ago. It was run by HIV infected women, and they were proud to save money for hurricane Katrina victims, to give something back. (i know, citation needed, and i don't know what came of it). Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina