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

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?

 
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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 10 2015, @01:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 10 2015, @01:50AM (#142956)

    Funny reading the threads here... like that bug one from gnuman who hasnt been watching this story unfold for the last 15 years, cherry picking some articles which would make a normal person go 'huh?'.

    Having 1 temperature station measuring an entire continent should raise alarm bells but when we're talking about religion, facts don't matter much.

    It is a fact that the climate science community hasnt even done a college course on statistics. Statistics are used and abused in an ad hoc basis, the peer reviewers know as much about statistics as the authors. So at the end of the day, how can anyone trust their work?

    Gavin Schmitt is 62% sure 2014 isnt the warmest year on record ;)

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