NASA Accused of manipulating climate data

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24 points·azgolfer··9 comments

The report reveals that there were no actual temperatures left in the computer database when NASA/NCDC proclaimed 2005 as “THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD.”

This sentence leaves me disinclined to continue reading the article. Is this going to be like Fox showing a program about the moon landing conspiracies, following it up a week later with a program debunking the conspiracies?

Sounds like pure demagogic to me.

However, it yet again sounds like a problem that could be solved by publishing all data freely on the web?

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/data-sources/

Data ARE freely available on the web. Basically all of it. Sceptics (I hate calling them sceptics: they don't deserve this term) like to repeat they aren't but don't be fooled by them.

The 'skeptic' branding was a great move on their part, but it's simply not true. It's akin to calling young earth creationists 'evolutionary skeptics'.

They're claiming that the averaged temps will be completely different from other, non-averaged temps. Given what averaging is all about, I find this hard to believe. Something doesn't seem right here.

Sorry, I'm in China & this site is blocked (for some reason) could someone provide a mirror, or better yet is there a site that I can use to mirror pages in the spirit of imgur.com?

Could you try whether Coral Cache works by appending .nyud.net to domain like this: http://wattsupwiththat.com.nyud.net/2010/01/14/more-on-john-...

Works for the link, thanks.

Same problem: Black boxes bearing results. Same solution: open sourcing the whole thing.

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