re: #6 filetandrelease

Charles, have you addressed the missing data… yet?

I will happy to debunk this crap.

First of all, anything coming from the competitive enterprise institute has about the same level of veracity as anything coming from the discovery institute. They are after all, the same people.

Now as to this case, let’s look honestly. I do not know the specific smear that this nonsense is referring to, however, if it was original climate data, from the first studies of AGW, I can make a very strong bet.

Data from back in the day was stored on tapes. People have been doing research on this topic for that long - in fact, back to the 50’s.

Tapes are big and bulky.

Labs have finite size.

People then transfer the data to other, more modern means of storage.
Once data is transferred to better storage mediums, then who cares what happens to the tapes?

But let’s get even more serious. This data was already published years and years ago. It is already out there. So what?

More importantly than that, do you think that there is only one data set available and that the only original data at all in the world on AGW was stored at this one facility?

No, this is outrageous bullshit from start to finish. It is also what you would expect from anti-science hacks like the ones you linked to.