I'd be interested to hear what your daughter has to say about Ross McKitrick and Pat Michael's paper on AGW and the data..... I haven't read it yet.

McKitrick, R.R. and Michaels, P.J. 2007. Quantifying the influence of anthropogenic surface processes and inhomogeneities on gridded global climate data. Journal of Geophysical Research 112: 10.1029/2007JD008465.

McIntyre has been roasting the MBH98 paper over on ClimateAudit, and given his relationship with Ross, I'm sure there's crossover study.