Here's Harry the CRU programmer in his code comments:
"...getting seriously fed up with the state of the Australian data. so many new stations have been introduced, so many false references.. so many changes that aren't documented. Every time a cloud forms I'm presented with a bewildering selection of similar-sounding sites, some with references, some with WMO codes, and some with both. And if I look up the station metadata with one of the local references, chances are the WMO code will be wrong (another station will have it) and the lat/lon will be wrong too."
And this:
"OH (expletive) THIS. It's Sunday evening, I've worked all weekend, and just when I thought it was done I'm hitting yet another problem that's based on the hopeless state of our databases. There is no uniform data integrity, it's just a catalogue of issues that continues to grow as they're found."
Yet the MSM still has absolute faith in the quality of the CRU's work. Yup, environmentalism is a religion.
Good Climategate stuff:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/25/climategate-hide-the-decline-codified/