Dunno what Alli thinks, but I think that a lot of folks have their careers relying on the existence of a man-made climate catastrophe, and that some of them aren't above manipulating data to keep their positions.
The emails are salacious, gossipy fun. But the meat of the matter is the code.
I don't code. I know nothing about Fortran. But I've spent a good bit of time talking with people who know Fortran this week- people who don't have a dog in this fight and don't give a damn about what happens in Copenhagen. To a man, they're all in agreement that the code in the Harry_Read_Me file is utter garbage. It generates particular answers because of the tweaks built into it; you could load any numbers you want to and still get results that say we're warming. It's a scam. Now, the question is, did the scientists involved KNOW they were generating fake results? Or were they so ignorant about the programming that they didn't even know their results were bogus?
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Date: 2009-11-30 01:58 am (UTC)The emails are salacious, gossipy fun. But the meat of the matter is the code.
I don't code. I know nothing about Fortran. But I've spent a good bit of time talking with people who know Fortran this week- people who don't have a dog in this fight and don't give a damn about what happens in Copenhagen. To a man, they're all in agreement that the code in the Harry_Read_Me file is utter garbage. It generates particular answers because of the tweaks built into it; you could load any numbers you want to and still get results that say we're warming. It's a scam. Now, the question is, did the scientists involved KNOW they were generating fake results? Or were they so ignorant about the programming that they didn't even know their results were bogus?