[Errant]

No but they did have written notes, magnetic tape, floppy drives, and hard drives. Converting it to digital data is minuscule compared to collecting. You trying to tell me that it was never converted to digital? That would be beyond comprehension for it would be needed for calculations, running through different model applications and so forth (i.e. Peer Review).

This data was their life's work and costs millions to collect. Doesn't backing it up, upgrading storage media with time make sense. I believe they know they have been caught fudging the facts and are now grasping for anything the dumbed down public might possibly swallow.

[Pontiac]

I am not defending the guy. What I am telling you is that what you are talking about is not as cheap as you imply. If you can’t get funding to do it you can’t do it.

What would have been a lot cheaper to do is to rent warehouse space to store his files and tapes. For a hundred bucks a month he should have been able to get climate controlled storage space somewhere.

[Noob1999]

.................. You trying to tell me that it was never converted to digital? That would be beyond comprehension for it would be needed for calculations..............

Most excellent point!
It seems to me that the formulas to “smooth” the original data must be available as part of their models: thus, by running the formulas in reverse might get us back to the “raw data” — unless everything was total bu11sh#t.