Finally, Brad DeLong calls me a liar

What took him so long? And not just any liar, the "lyingest economist alive."

Details below the fold as well as my defense, if it interests you. It's a bit long, but when you're called the "lyingest economist alive" I think it's worth a careful response.

Brad doesn't like this post where I wrote that Phil Jones, climate scientist, says there's no warming trend over the last 15 years. I had read (and linked to) this article from the Daily Mail that began:

The academic at the centre of the...