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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 11 2017, @09:23PM
Ahh Mister Bates, he always does it and now he's been seen doing it in public.
Anyway blind Freddy can see that the climate is changing, getting warmer here, colder there, more extreme in some parts, less extreme in others. The question everyone asks is what is the cause of it? The answer is, who cares, what's more important is how do we make the most of it? Increasing CO2 emissions actually results in an increase in biomass and accelerated plant growth, increased crop yield and so forth, but also accumulation in biofuel on forest floors for summer fires.
The solution to these problems is in developing infrastructure and methods to cope with the increased farming yield, potential carbon capture methods for petrochemical industries and improved management of forests with possibly making them no-go zones during risk periods. The technology behind solar power is advancing apace and is unstoppable, but the main advantage this gives us is in diminishing the importance of the middle eastern countries. If we could only shrug off the importance of the middle east, then the geopolitical reset could well unseat the shysters who got us into this mess in the first place - and they know who they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 12 2017, @06:09AM
Anyway blind Freddy can see that the climate is changing, getting warmer here, colder there, more extreme in some parts, less extreme in others. The question everyone asks is what is the cause of it? The answer is, who cares...
Republicanism, it's a party!