Ahhh ... there was a conference late in October entitled "Reconciling Vertical Temperature Trends Workshop", which will result in an NCDC (more alphabet soup) report sometime in the future.
I did skim one paper in which the RSS folk responsible for the Science paper above compared their results with Christy's.
What's very interesting is they're using data from the same satellites ... the RSS folk conclude that the difference comes from how they merge datasets from different NOAA satellites and it's almost all due to a single one, NOAA-9.
The conference also examined the weather balloon data, so I'm sure this conference is the one referenced by the person who e-mailed me the information.
Apparently the conclusion didn't help Christy's case any. It will be interesting to read the report when it comes out.
