[USCG SimTech]

Before the debate about the meaning of a pile of numbers can begin:

1. Where is the scientific equipments calibration certification documents for each every sensor used to derive said numbers over the time span of the collection sample?

2. Is the calibration certification verifiable and not possible to be altered by any source once the certification is sealed?

3. For the data from these calbrated sensors, demonstrate the chain of custody that is unalterable from the sensor, its time and date, to the output final documents (charts, graphs, tables). The data must be verifiable as unchanged, accurate and true by any and all that investigate the data. This includes surprise inspections.

If workers are required to work under these condition inside a nuke plant (and they are) why should data that supposedly threatens the entire Earth in one way or another not be held to the same scrutiny?

[Red Badger]

Being an old PMEL Calibration guy, those statements are valid.
But having said that, the use and placement of the sensors is very important, if not more so.

http://www.surfacestations.org/odd_sites.htm

[mountn man]

The scientists should all have to go under the same scrutiny that nuke plant workers do to gain access to the plant.

5 year work history.
MULTIPLE references.
600+ question phsych evaluation.

Just so you can do paperwork on the paperwork for the paperwork that you just did paperwork on the valve handle you jiggled.

[Bryan24]

I work in the calibration lab at MSFC in Huntsville. You sound like my boss.....(g)