More problems in Richard Muller BEST data. Climate racket 'high reward, low risk,' make prediction, make hay, and be gone-Climate Audit comment

11/6/11, "BEST Data “Quality”," Climate Audit, Steve McIntyre

"CA (Climate Audit) reader Gary Wescom writes about more data quality problems with the Berkeley temperature study – see here.

In a surprising number of records, the “seasonally adjusted” station data in the Berekely archive contains wildly incorrect data. Gary shows a number of cases, one of which, Longmont 2ESE, outside the nest of climate scientists

• in Boulder CO, is said to have temperatures
  

• below minus 50 deg C in the late fall as shown below...."

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"Alex Hayworth

Posted Nov 6, 2011 at 6:58 PM | Permalink | Reply

If this is the BEST, I’d hate to see the worst.

The problem has always been, and will continue to be, that attention to the data is non-sexy. Climate scientists [physicists and others] who use the data want to spend their time making predictions of how we will be roasted in a hundred years time.

• This is high reward, low risk work.
  

• They will be dead before they are proved wrong,
  

in the meantime they can make a good career out of being Jeremiahs. Even the ones who are proved wrong, time and again, somehow still seem to keep on sucking on the public teat.

• Witness Paul Ehrlich."

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"Dearieme

Posted Nov 6, 2011 at 8:35 PM | Permalink | Reply

It’s not enough to sneer at Climate Scientists, chaps.

• These BEST people claim to be physicists.

• Clearly there’s something infectious going on."

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