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To: Archie Meeties who wrote (126065)	11/30/2009 7:58:44 AM
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Message 26136855 Scientists Are Not Software Engineers Posted by Shannon Love on November 28th, 2009 (All posts by Shannon Love) chicagoboyz.net The real shocking revelation in the Climategate incident isn’t the emails that show influential scientists possibly engaging in the disruption of the scientific process and possibly even committing legal fraud. Those emails might be explained away. No, the real shocking revelation lies in the computer code and data that were dumped along with the emails. Arguably, these are the most important computer programs in the world. These programs generate the data that is used to create the climate models which purport to show an inevitable catastrophic warming caused by human activity. It is on the basis of these programs that we are supposed to massively reengineer the entire planetary economy and technology base. The dumped files revealed that those critical programs are complete and utter train wrecks. It’s hard to explain to non-programmers just how bad the code is but I will try. Suppose the code was a motorcycle. Based on the repeated statements that Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming was “settled science” you would expect that the computer code that helped settle the science would look like this… (picture in the linked article) …when in reality it looks like this: (picture in the linked article) Yes, it’s that bad. ... (more)