[cogitator]

I guess my point is that while the data for the troposphere showed cooling before the known correction, scientists were putting faith in the models even though the data showed different.

And that's a very good point.

[P-40]

And that's a very good point.

My take is that most of the scientists will use tools, like models, in the best way they know how and as better methods come along they will continually reevaluate their understanding of what they are seeing. I know the IPCC is not popular here and I will admit that they are under a lot of political pressure, but many of their scientists do some excellent work and report fairly on their findings and even on the limitations of those findings. The only exception to that I readily make is to the 'statement for policy makers' because that always seems so political and should be retitled something along the lines of "statements for people who don't care what we have to say as long as we say what they want us to."