re: #367 LudwigVanQuixote

Even Six was smart enough to drop this nonsense yeterday when he got called on it. You however were always too pig headed to see when yuo have a completely losing hand. This is just like when you believed Jonah Goldberg Walter. You should learn from your past mistakes.

Actually, I didn’t “drop” anything. CRU’s data management procedures are a mess. So is their code. I’ve said since the very first day the stolen data was released, and repeatedly, that this was the case. I’ve also said that such sloppiness doesn’t necessarily imply that the results obtained were wrong. But it does provide a hook for the opposition to hang objections on, and the CRU crew was foolish not to realize this and archive their raw data. The same goes for their code: inserting off-the-cuff, unprofessional comments in it is a practice that ought to have been curtailed.

Want proof that both of these things are a problem? Look around. Your own irrational non-defense of the matter, and the fact that you deem it necessary, is all the proof you need that these it would have been better had CRU conducted these parts of their process more professionally.

Or, if you prefer, you can also produce a link to the post where I ” drop[ped] this nonsense” and “got called on it” along with a link to those posts where I denied climate science.