Sentences with phrase «radians error»
** Note added 1/21/05: McKitrick and Michaels have published an errata correcting the degrees / radians error in CR 27, 265 - 268 which now shows that latitude correlates much better with temperature trends than any economic statisitic.
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MM should never be mentioned without reference to their stupendous error in substituting radian for degrees in their GRL paper, nor to the mass resignation of editors protesting the publication of that paper.
Benestad also noted a post from climate blogger Tim Lambert, who pointed out an error in the calculation of area weighting (a mixup of radians and degrees) that almost doubled the portion of warming trend attributed by McKitrick to economic factors, despite McKitrick's claim that the correction «hardly changed the results» (hat tip to Frank O'Dwyer).