NIWA lawsuit?

[gllitz]

Was just wondering if people had seen this article:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4026330 ... a-accuracy

...and what people might think? (RWood! ) Sounds all a wee bit political to me, but then again.....

Thoughts?

[RWood]

Was just wondering if people had seen this article:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4026330 ... a-accuracy

...and what people might think? (RWood! ) Sounds all a wee bit political to me, but then again.....

Thoughts?

This has been done to death over at Hot Topic. The CSC has made stupid basic errors in presenting their own version of the temperature series for some stations - and has refused to retract them even after having them pointed out repeatedly. This dead horse needs a rest.

[NZstorm]

If the CSC won this it would make the headlines in more than Stuff!

[southernthrash]

It's an absolute sham on the part of CSC, court is not the place to be debating science. If they were realistically capable of demonstrating error in NIWA's methodologies then there is plenty of scope to do that within the scientific literature/academic circles. Ofcourse, the public generally aren't aware of that...

[RWood]

Even if a court of law were a place to settle such things, I wouldn't fancy the chances of a group that is so ignorant that it patched together records from Wellington sites that differed in altitude by 120+ metres and ignored the demonstrable difference of at least 0.8C between them.

[southernthrash]

Well I guess that in doing that, they validated the ideal gas law. Which, interestingly, is something those types seem to have a hard time understanding, along with the Stefan-Boltzmann Law and Wien's Displacement Law