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Mistakes happen, which is why Quality Control exists. These guys do have QC don’t they?

(All your dodgy-data discoveries really remind me of troubleshooting financial spreadsheets at work!)

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They sure do and I've made a fair few bloopers in my time! The problem is that errors of this magnitude really knock my confidence and there's no way of auditing every record for every station, hence in part 5 I abandon NOAA's data and turn to the Met Office for comfort.

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I voted to focus on COVID, but this work is an eyeopener. UNBELIEVABLE! And which data bases are Prof Moriaty and ilk using to justify the multi gazillion dollar spend on "man-made global warming"?

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Innit, though? I'm sitting on a truckload of stuff like this and wish I could clone myself! At some point I'll put together a series on how they mangle the temperature anomaly data. Be prepared to swear a lot.

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