[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Making the data fit the theories.....

That is what they have been doing with reducing the bad (too cold)recording stations and cherry picking their data very carefully...got to keep the money coming thru the Global warming research grants....

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Making the data fit the theories..... That is what they have been doing with reducing the bad (too cold)recording stations and cherry picking their data very carefully...got to keep the money coming thru the Global warming research grants....

From Eisenhower's farewell address 1961: "Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded."