re: #577 Thanos

The raw data is still there at the stations surveyed, just not at the CRU. Anyone who is truly interested can reconstitute it from the original data at the stations. If the denialists really had a smoking gun here don’t you think they would take some time to create that competing study rather than hysterically scream hoax and foul?

This is a key point. The data is available from the NOAA. Why are the anti-AGW people just yelling about data being destroyed (it WASN’T) instead of getting in there and correlating the NOAA’s raw data with the CRU’s adjusted data, and proving to the world that there’s a hoax?

The answer is simple — because they know it’s no hoax, and they know that if they did correlate the data they would find NOTHING wrong. So instead, they yell and scream and lie about “destroyed data” in order to poison the well and trick the gullible. It’s disgusting.