Charles,
You say you haven’t read all the climate emails, I haven’t either. That woman you quote claims she did. Seems more like a social “scientist” than a scientist, so I question her science background, but…

On a climate blog I did run across this “fudge factor” and did plot it myself. The guy that found it plotted it too.

It plots out into the infamous hockey stick man made global warming.

Can you speculate why climate scientists would have this in their computer programs, if not to make the outcome what they have preconceived?

I know you try to do your best to keep things honest with everyone on all matters and do get beat up for it and sometimes I do disagree with your methods.

But I remember Dan Rather and how you stood up for right when everyone was bashing you, and you know how to analyze data.

So, for what it is worth… why don’t you plot the fudge factor too and let us know what you think.

“This is an actual snippet of code from the CRU contained in the source file: briffa_Sep98_d.pro
1. ;
2. ; Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!
3. ;
4. yrloc=[1400,findgen(19)*5.+1904]
5. valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor
6. if n_elements(yrloc) ne n_elements(valadj) then message,’Oooops!’
7.
8. yearlyadj=interpol(valadj,yrloc,timey)
If you plot the valadj (value adjustment?) fudge factor in a series
[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor “

This guy did it, and gave more detail
cubeantics.com

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