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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?
(Score: 5, Informative) by buswolley on Monday February 09 2015, @10:05PM
I did google searches citing this article, and I found nothing but hot air, fixnews kind of sites. I would like to see a rebuttal from a rational party.
subicular junctures
(Score: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 09 2015, @10:38PM
I'd prefer to see a skeptic go down and either verify or disprove the claims. A rebuttal at this point would be nothing but he said she said. Mind you, that's good enough for most people.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 10 2015, @08:01PM
Ages ago when I was mining weather data there was a huge problem when sensor drift showed a massive shortfall of arctic ice [nationalweatheronline.com]. With all the inaccuracies and constant fiddling of official numbers it's no wonder we have global warming skeptics. Kinda like when "we" just adjusted the baseline for background radiation when the chunks from Fukushima came to Cali. Now the graph looks just like before Fukushima, only there's 100x the radiation all along the west coast.