Monday, July 11, 2011
"Changing Tides: Research Center Under Fire for 'Adjusted' Sea-Level Data"
This is an interesting story.
I think it points out some of the futility in trying to create policy that is based on measurements of these things.
Clearly, everything affects everything, and when you consider the complexity, it's mind boggling.
To think that anyone or any group really has this down to a science that can justify "adjustments", seems a bit foolhardy (to me)...
I think it points out some of the futility in trying to create policy that is based on measurements of these things.
Clearly, everything affects everything, and when you consider the complexity, it's mind boggling.
To think that anyone or any group really has this down to a science that can justify "adjustments", seems a bit foolhardy (to me)...
Maxim Lott wrote about it at FoxNews.com:
"Is climate change raising sea levels, as Al Gore has argued -- or are climate scientists doctoring the data?
The University of Colorado’s Sea Level Research Group decided in May to add 0.3 millimeters -- or about the thickness of a fingernail -- every year to its actual measurements of sea levels, sparking criticism from experts who called it an attempt to exaggerate the effects of global warming.
'Gatekeepers of our sea level data are manufacturing a fictitious sea level rise that is not occurring,' said James M. Taylor, a lawyer who focuses on environmental issues for the Heartland Institute."
