Wednesday, August 15, 2007

More examples of how environmentalism can kill

Walter Williams provides the details.

And it's also noted that NASA has quietly revised their estimates of temperature in the United States, apparently by as much as 0.27F. The result?

Well, nobody "in the club" is admitting that uncertainty in temperature estimates might lead to uncertainty about the overall global warming hypothesis, sad to say. It's the same story we hear when it becomes apparent that many temperature monitoring stations are located near thermal anomalies and heat islands; "oh, that's just an inconsequential shift in the data."

In short, the researchers are either unable or unwilling to come to grips with the fact that when serious flaws in methodology like this are found, the consequence is not primarily in the shift in data when the flaw is corrected. The consequence is that the credibility of all the data is impaired.

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