Posted by
Catmman on Monday, November 23, 2009 10:09:00 AM
You can
try to spin the e-mails away. But can you spin away programming code/notes showing apparent purposeful manipulation of climate data to show the pre-determined, global warming alarmist viewpoint?
There’s a file of code also in the collection of emails and documents from CRU. A commenter named Neal on climate audit writes:
People are talking about the emails being smoking
guns but I find the remarks in the code and the code more of a smoking
gun. The code is so hacked around to give predetermined results that it
shows the bias of the coder. In other words make the code ignore
inconvenient data to show what I want it to show.
Here is an example of one of the 'code notes' implanted in the computer code:
Uses “corrected” MXD – but shouldn’t usually
; plot past 1960 because these will be artificially adjusted to look closer to
; the real temperatures.
Perhaps the computer code is now being taken out of context?
From
Watts Up With That:
You can claim an email you wrote years ago isn’t accurate saying it
was “taken out of context”, but a programmer making notes in the code
does so that he/she can document what the code is actually doing at
that stage, so that anyone who looks at it later can figure out why
this function doesn’t plot past 1960. In this case, it is not allowing
all of the temperature data to be plotted. Growing season data (summer
months when the new tree rings are formed) past 1960 is thrown out
because “these will be artificially adjusted to look closer to the real
temperatures”, which implies some post processing routine.
Spin that, spin it to the moon if you want. I’ll believe programmer
notes over the word of somebody who stands to gain from suggesting
there’s nothing “untowards” about it.
Either the data tells the story of nature or it does not. Data that
has been “artificially adjusted to look closer to the real
temperatures” is false data, yielding a false result.
BTW, you won't find
ANY of this information in the
New York Times.
More
here (with images of the computer code sections).