Climate "scientists" deliberately hid the sharp post-1960 decline in temperature proxy data and laughed about "Mike's Nature trick" among themselves.

It's one of many smoking guns extracted from the CRU hack. (Note that it may actually have been a leak and not a hack.)
The phrase itself is now something of a joke, as in "Can't hide the decline, Obama's poll numbers drop again."
by wxchaos December 13, 2009
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Climat Scientists knowingly hiding data that earth temperatures have been declining over the past few years, despite CO2 levels increasing.
If you don't like the data, fudge the numbers and hide the decline
by bdw60 November 26, 2009
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