3 thoughts on “Appalling”

  1. No surprises here. The late Michael Crichton wrote a work of fiction, State of Fear, that was essentially a long essay debunking Global Warming in its entirety. (The action-adventure parts were cheesy. The meat of the novel is the discussions with the lead sceptic.) It is the only work of fiction I have ever read with an extensive bibliography at the end with commentary on the value of each document. Everybody should read this book.

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  2. I don’t know which is more appalling–people being so sloppy with their data-verification (or being so trustworthy of third-party sources)–or a press which is scientifically ignorant enough not to ask questions about data-sourcing in the first place.

    Of course, I’ve done enough computer programming to suspect that this particular error might have resulted from a programming bug. Some script file, somewhere, failed to write the new data-set to the file that was being sent. Another script file (or another portion of same sript file) sent the existing file, which contained the previous data set.

    If the parts of the program/script didn’t check for success of every stage of the operation, it is absurdly easy for that kind of error to happen.

    Of course, the folks at GISS should have some idea of the data, and at least do a sanity check before they publish.

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  3. Mr. Wright should check out what he’s linking before he links it, especially if he’s linking it “without comment”, as if to say, “This says it all, QED.” See here, here, and here. Booker’s piece is wrong all over the place, and there’s nothing to see here — certainly nothing damning of climate science as it’s being done.

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