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Monday, 23 November 2009

Best line found so far in the "hacked" emails

"OH **** THIS. It's Sunday evening, I've worked all weekend, and just when I thought it was done I'm hitting yet another problem that's based on the hopeless state of our databases. There is no uniform data integrity, it's just a catalogue of issues that continues to grow as they're found."
Let's just savour that "the hopeless state of our databases. There is no uniform data integrity, it's just a catalogue of issues that continues to grow"Are you happy that the decisions to radically cut CO2 emissions and tax us into the ground for emitting CO2 is on the basis of "settled science" based on "hopeless...databases... no uniform data integrity... (and) a catalogue of issues..."?

I'm not.


It seems that not only do we have possible fraudulent activity at the CRU but also more worryingly the data itself looks like it is in many cases garbage. Data has been lost, analysed with buggy programs, gaps filled with synthetic data and so on and on and on.


You can read more here, at Bishop Hill and at Devils Kitchen, amongst others...

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