Scientists should use the scientific method and publish all of the source data and methods. It is not science if it is not reproducible.
I love this quote:
University research is the closest thing to legalized prostitution that exists in this country today. Scare the crap out of enough Congresscritters and you’ve got funding for your research group to last your entire career, data be damned.
As someone who writes code for a living and a hobby I was interested in the source code downloaded from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU).
The comments in the code make for enlightening reading. The HARRY_READ_ME.txt contained some nice comments about the quality of the code and was summed up nicely by one of the commenters.
Simplified code for CRU to use (from an average programmer with no climatology expertise):
For intYear = 1400 to 2009; floatGlobalMeanTemerature = floatGlobalMeanTemperature + WHATEVER_THE_HELL_YOU_WANT_IT_TO_BE; intYear++ next
Print “Holy Crap! We’re all going to die!”
After reading through some of the comments and code it is entirely clear that all of the data has been manipulated to fit an agenda.
Wattsupwiththat has some more in depth coverage of some of the code comments.
For your viewing pleasure.
Even John Stewart gets it.
My favorite Comment.
Poor Al Gore, Global warming debunked by the very Internet he invented.
In one of the last episodes we saw that some climate "scientists" selectively chose samples that supported their theory and ignored those that did not. Additionally the way the data was calculated was found to be flawed. Flawed is a nice way to put it.
Now we are seeing that many scientists have colluded to manipulate data to enforce their flawed theories. E-mail messages between high-ranking scientists appear to indicate a conspiracy by some of the world's leading global warming alarmists to falsify temperature data in order to exaggerate global averages.
