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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: 2) by wantkitteh on Wednesday February 11 2015, @01:10AM
I don't think attacking someone's credibility is this manner is at all troll-like in this case - a history of poor judgement, pushing bad sources and terrible scientific reasoning is a pretty good indicator that neither of the people I mentioned should be trusted to have a valid opinion on these matters. Your own immediate distrust as soon as you saw it was a Telegraph article is an example of exactly the same thing - I discounted the content of the article based on the publishing history of the author whereas you distrusted it based on the history of the publication it ran in. Poh-TAY-toh, poh-TAR-toh. It's pretty obvious you weren't the one who modded me troll, but background is background whether it's smeared with bullshit or not.
AGW has nothing to do with politics - which is extremely unfortunate since it's become*ahem*been turned into a political issue and most people don't change their political views ever for any reason at all, short of a few million dead people to clean up. It's enough to make me want to start murdering all the people who did/are doing this as a proactive punishment for the generational tyranny they have inflicted on the future population of this planet now that the human race doesn't stand a single chance in hell of actually doing anything about this, purely so a few arsehats could make a quick a few years ago. The actual evidence isn't hard to follow, provided you can find the original evidence and are able to follow the actual discussion the real climate scientists have been having outside of the public arena.
(Score: 1) by ConceptJunkie on Wednesday February 11 2015, @04:05PM
Well, I don't think you're a troll. I think you just need a kitteh.
(Score: 2) by wantkitteh on Wednesday February 11 2015, @11:19PM
Now you're just tryin to make me cry... not gunna! *snifflesob*