re: #290 Obdicut

Data comes in, interpretation of the data goes out. What matters is if the code at CRU interprets the data correctly— does it mash it all together, average it, adjust for margins of error, perform the various mathematical functions that legitimately perform a statistical analysis on the data.

Here’s the RealClimate on it:

[Link: www.realclimate.org…]

Big difference is a lot of these errors were not identified in the live programs that CRU used until 2006 onward, by Ian Harris. That’s a simple fact that Ian Harris documents over and over.

This would be the same as if YOU were hired at some financial firm to maintain some financial programs, programs that were used daily by the company, and you started to find out that the programs were loosing money for the company for years and years.