Comments on: More Thoughts on Historic Temperature Adjustments http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/07/more-thoughts-o.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:42:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: TCO http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/07/more-thoughts-o.html/comment-page-1#comment-6363 TCO Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:26:43 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/07/more-thoughts-o.html #comment-6363 <p>There is plenty of slop in the climate statistics. Plenty to be improved and revealed. </p> <p>However, one should also be wary of those (many in the skeptic comnunity) who want to argue for impossible (especially for historical) levels of instrument precision. They use this as an excuse for doing nothing. For analyzing nothing.</p> <p>Think of the thermometers and tree rings and the like as imperfect market research surveys. There are still valuable insights from them that can be and should be extracted.</p> There is plenty of slop in the climate statistics. Plenty to be improved and revealed.

However, one should also be wary of those (many in the skeptic comnunity) who want to argue for impossible (especially for historical) levels of instrument precision. They use this as an excuse for doing nothing. For analyzing nothing.

Think of the thermometers and tree rings and the like as imperfect market research surveys. There are still valuable insights from them that can be and should be extracted.

]]> By: Phil http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/07/more-thoughts-o.html/comment-page-1#comment-6362 Phil Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:58:27 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/07/more-thoughts-o.html #comment-6362 <p>It seems to me that taking on the climate scientists is perfect opportunity for crowd sourcing. You documented the station in Tucson. What if we use a wiki like system to document all such stations, and even try to document when parking lots where built and so forth. I can well imagine the reason for the averaging across all stations is that if you only look at the temperature data it only makes sense if you average over a large area. The same way that if all stations were historically documented with coded data such averaging would clearly not make sense. No?</p> It seems to me that taking on the climate scientists is perfect opportunity for crowd sourcing. You documented the station in Tucson. What if we use a wiki like system to document all such stations, and even try to document when parking lots where built and so forth. I can well imagine the reason for the averaging across all stations is that if you only look at the temperature data it only makes sense if you average over a large area. The same way that if all stations were historically documented with coded data such averaging would clearly not make sense. No?

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