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SixDegrees12/01/2009 4:30:19 am PST

re: #163 Walter L. Newton

Thanks. I’ll consider your offer, but at this point my concern is with whether or not the original raw data that HadCRUT3 was constructed from can ever be reassembled. Or, to be more succinct, if HadCRUT3 can be replicated from it’s original sources. This sort of examination of original raw data is commonplace, but my hopes that such examination will be possible are fading. It sounds as though CRU itself is unable to undertake such a reconstruction.

I haven’t seen any reason to reject CRU’s conclusions so far, but if I were citing their research I’d feel compelled to put a little star next to the reference, leading to an explanation of the circumstances, i.e., probably valid, but cannot be reproduced.