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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 10 2015, @05:09AM
I just want, one time, to use the Creationist objection to all evidence: Were you there? Did you actually see the scientist read the instrument? No? Well how do we know whether the recorded data was the actual data, since we did not observe it ourselves? To prove Andropogenic Global Warming, one person would have to be everywhere at once to check all the thermometers, and since only God could do that, and God can't read thermometers, since they were invented by humans and are an instrument of the Devil! (ask yourself one question: who has a vested interest in knowing how hot it is?), we can never know. So since gas prices are so low, I thought I would drive up (praise Jesus) to visit my (praise Jesus!) gay prostitute with a little powdered religion. What is my name?
(Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Tuesday February 10 2015, @09:33PM
The writer of this article is a Creationist himself