Not exact matches
While it's gratifying that you look to old CA blog posts and comment threads for guidance on scientific practice, the difference in trend between HadSST2 and HadSST3 seems to me
like a
fundamental calculation in appraising the impact of the unwinding the Folland
error on SST indices, regardless of whether I had turned my mind to the question in a quick calculation several years ago.
If we can't concede something so basic and
fundamental to science (you do not, under any circumstances, publish a graph that is knowingly in
error) then how are we possibly going to trust those same principles with things that aren't nearly as cut and dry (oh say things
like the use of «novel» statistics to overstate one's case on previous temperatures or «novel» statistics that spread warming from one side of the Antarctic to the other)?
(3) This policy debate is full of people stubbornly fetishizing procedural things
like «peer reviewed» as if they trump
fundamental things
like «archived» and «disclosed» and «written by an author who acknowledges
errors after they are pointed out» and «clear» and «technically correct.»
There were a series of
errors like that there were pretty
fundamental.