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, Insightful) by Gravis on Monday February 09 2015, @11:20PM
the whole thing about science is that if someone else runs the experiment, the results are the same. unfortunately, humans only live so long and we have a vested interest in the results. so what should we do? a lot more research by a lot more people and groups! in the mean time we should eliminate human generated pollution as fast as possible because it may be killing our ecosystem.