Monday, October 08, 2007

More Climate Data Cherrypicking

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On September 28, I talked about data manipulation and "cherrypicking"... using only data that supports a biased contention and ignoring other data that do not support the bias.

In an admittedly technical post, Steve McIntyre takes the issue one step farther... rather than not picking certain data, now data will be "restricted" so that anyone who doubts proclamations based on those data will not be able to independently analyze them.
That's taking "Trust Us" to a whole new level.
Since when are weather data confidential?
Since global warming analysis moved from the scientific to the political arena.
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