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A follow-up to this story: NOAA Whistleblower: Climate Data Was Manipulated, the Computers Used "Suffered a Complete Failure"
Top Republicans on the House science committee claim a former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist “confirmed” that his NOAA colleagues “manipulated” climate data for a 2015 study. But that scientist denies that he accused NOAA of manipulating data.
Rep. Lamar Smith, the chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and two subcommittee chairmen issued a Feb. 5 press release — “Former NOAA Scientist Confirms Colleagues Manipulated Climate Records” — as part of an ongoing dispute over the validity of a paper published in the journal Science in June 2015 by NOAA scientists.
[...] But in interviews with the Associated Press and E&E, an online energy and environmental news outlet, Bates said he had not accused his colleagues of data manipulation.
Bates told the AP on Feb. 6 that there was “no data tampering, no data changing, nothing malicious” involved with his colleagues’ study. “It’s not trumped up data in any way shape or form,” he said.
Rather, Bates claimed Karl and his group hadn’t followed NOAA protocol in “the way data was handled, documented and stored, raising issues of transparency and availability,” the AP reported.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @05:49PM
NYC is underwater since 2015, as predicted, and polar caps have melted, Hillary is the prez and WMDs have been finally found in Iraq.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @01:09AM
NYC is underwater
Well, there are island groups in the Pacific where that is already true.
Those folks had to find new places to live.
Tropical storms feed on ocean heat.
Those continue to be bigger, more energetic, and longer-lasting.
In decades past, having *tropical* storms in NYC was unusual.
It was extremely unusual for NYC to get clobbered by a storm that was 1000 miles across, covering 16 states. [nasa.gov]
With a raised sea level baseline and an unusually powerful storm, the delta presented by Hurricane Sandy flooded anything that wasn't well above ground level.
With bunches of stuff waterlogged/coated with mud, life in NYC didn't return to normal for months.
Smirk if want to.
With ever-warmer oceans, folks in places that thought they were out of harm's way are increasingly going to be making plans for things they used to think only happened elsewhere.
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