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Scepticism's limits
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Dec 12, 2009 10:03pm |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Media | Newspaper - Economist (The) |
| News Date | Friday, December 11, 2009 09:40:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | I WOKE up the other morning to find that I would have to confront yet another headache-inducing attempt to phase-shift my perception of reality, and that this would require wading into historical accounts of the collection and homogenisation of temperature data. On December 8th, a climate-change sceptic named Willis Eschenbach posted what he called the "smoking gun" of climate change data manipulation: a series of graphs of the uandjusted historical record of the temperature-monitoring site at the airport in Darwin, Australia, plotted against the same data as adjusted for various error factors ("homogenised") by the Global Historical Climate Network, or GHCN. Mr Eschenbach claimed the adjustment was so arbitrary, it had to be evidence of intentional manipulation. Here's his graph, and at first glance it seems pretty convincing, no?
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