re: #619 Walter L. Newton

What you can’t answer is HOW MUCH VARIATION in the final results did the bad data cause? Climate research isn’t like trying to land a probe on mars where one faulty calculation can mean disaster for the whole prject. It’s about variation in large sets of data over a long period of time. Outliers can be found and corrected for algorithmically. It’s all about averages.

If the bad data resulted in in various calculations being off by a few hundredths of a percent, it doesn’t matter that much.

You can’t really say anything meaningful with your findings until you can state the DEGREE of error that was introduced.