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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Brumar89 who wrote (834466)2/5/2015 1:46:34 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 1578497
 
No; the defense is that he doesn't know WTF he is talking about. You prolly didn't go particular case here, so I'll get you started.

Reykjavik and GHCN adjustments.

There was a WUWT guest post recently by Paul Homewood on GHCN and GISS adjustments, and their effect on Iceland. It was somewhat along the lines of an earlier Eschenbach post on Darwin.

Then there were the usual thoughtful WUWT responses
When are the legal people going to be brought into this?
Someone should go to jail if this is tampering as it appears.
we’ve still a bunch of scumbags on this earth pretending that a dynamic history is OK
etc. So what happened

No, history was not rewritten. What the folks there don't seem to want to acknowledge is that GHCN circulates two files, described here. The file everyone there wants to focus on is the adjusted file (QCA). This, as explained, has been homogenized. This is a preparatory step for its use in compiling a global index. It tries to put all stations on the same basis, and also adjust them, if necessary, to be representative of the region. It is not an attempt to modify the historical record....
there's more.

moyhu.blogspot.com

one of the comments

Nick Stokes February 6, 2012 at 5:59 AM
Mailman,
"when ever adjustments are made the effect is to always cool the past "
That's just not true. In the Darwin post that I linked, I showed the histogram of effects of V2 adjustments on trend. It's balanced; the trend is almost as likely to be lowered as raised.

That post was a response to a WUWT post on adjustments to Darwin, where adjustments raised the trend. I showed that adjustments to Coonabarabran, also in Australia, lowered the trend there equally.

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