Comments on: Gavin Schmidt: "The processing algorithm worked fine."

By: Climate Change: Data Control – The Enemy Within

Climate Change: Data Control – The Enemy Within — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 04:35:04 +0000

[...] October was the warmest since 1880. They’d re-used September data for many northern stations. GISS blamed the error on the agency that supplied the data, but NASA said the supplier carried out “extensive quality control.” As always, the error [...]

By: The End of CRUTEM? « Climate Audit

The End of CRUTEM? « Climate Audit — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:24:53 +0000

[...] here once again in 2008 after Gavin Schmidt had said that the entire GISS quality control effort took [...]

By: EJ

EJ — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:14:38 +0000

The whole GISS, etc., the entire surface data system, needs to be rebuilt, no?

By: John F. Pittman

John F. Pittman — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:23:06 +0000

Yes. Nit picking is required. I believe it has something to do with verification. After multiple episodes of lice ( I have four children and 17 nephews and nieces about the same age), I can testify that if you do not only nit pick, but do a perfect job of it, the problem will raise it’s ugly little head again and again, and…

By: steven mosher

steven mosher — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:46:32 +0000

mildly interesting stuff when you look at combining stations for verhojansk.
7 different files. not much overlap between stations since 1987. also
surrounding rural stations might yeild something. See the WUWT post on the
central heating at verhojansk

By: jeez

jeez — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:06:55 +0000

Digging a little deeper, it looks like you’ve also found the hiding place of Santer’s reindeer.

Verkhoyansk is a town in the Sakha Republic, Russia, situated on the Yana River, near the Arctic Circle, 675 km from Yakutsk. There is river port, an airport, a fur-collecting depot, and the center of a reindeer-raising area. Population: 1,434 (2002 Census).

By: craig loehle

craig loehle — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:04:27 +0000

If someone takes a tone of omniscience, of infallibility, of condescension toward “sceptics”, and it then turns out that they are making up statistics that have never been tested, used data with geographic coordinates wrong, arbitrarily truncated data, lost recent data from entire countries, can’t seem to add, etc., then perhaps a little irony, a few snide remarks are in order. You may note that Steve M. (not a Dr., but quite qualified anyway) puts HIS data and R code in public and corrects his mistakes. It is the people who claim infallibility who hide their code, their data, and their methods.

By: lucia

lucia — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:03:10 +0000

Re: conard (#84), If you ever had a child with a lice problem, you would appreciate that nit picking is a necessary. That said: Pointing out that GISS has extremely poor quality assurance is not nit picking. I assume by asymmetry in tone, you are alluding to tone in the top of the fold and reminding us that Gavin's tone is more snide than other bloggers?

By: EJ

EJ — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:00:59 +0000

Cat in a sand box.

This sand box is Dr. M’s. The statistical guru.

Dr. Steve M has demonstrated his competence in statistics for the record. Of course, I am no climatologist. I am no statistician, I am an engineer. I try to keep abreast of the science here. I thank you all for your contributions.

I would like to remind those desperate souls that we can’t snap our fingers and make anything so. Should we vote to make something so by a democracy? We can’t pray to make it so. Let’s vote for independent science.

We need a bulldog with a good nose here.

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:02:39 +0000

This is what they’re paid to do. They’re paid out of YOUR pocket, and work for you. Yet call them on the piss poor job they’re doing in the rare minutes when they’re not out self-promoting, and all they can do is feign some smug irritation and tell you their budget is too small.

snip – calm down a bit