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Another Climate Data Scandal

posted by martyb on Monday February 09 2015, @09:45PM   
from the heated-discussion dept.

BK writes:

The Telegraph reports "The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever"

From the article:

"When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified."

It seems that the norm in science may well be to cherry pick the results, but the story points to evidence that some climate data may have been falsified to fit the theory.

Sure, it's clickbait, but we've recently discussed cases where science and scientific consensus has gotten it so very wrong. Can we trust the science if we can't trust the data?

• OH NO OH NO (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 09 2015, @09:59PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 09 2015, @09:59PM (#142858)

  Not scientific dishonesty! How could this happen?! Aren't scientists required to swear an oath on a stack of Principia, to report only the truth, before they receive a license to practice science??

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• Re:OH NO Re:OH NO (Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Monday February 09 2015, @10:01PM

  by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Monday February 09 2015, @10:01PM (#142860) Journal

  This is HARD! Won't SOMEONE tell me WHAT to THINK! I want them to be EXPERTS, so I can call my attachment "SCIENCE"!

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  • Re:OH NO (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 09 2015, @10:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 09 2015, @10:04PM (#142863)

    It's called SCIENCE not FICTION and they're supposed to be EXPERTS not LIARS.

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