With Rep. Lamar Smith's ongoing NOAA witch-hunt, there is a new opportunity for Smith and others to test just how much NOAA and collaborating scientific institutions have supposedly manipulated the temperature record. A study released last week to little fanfare confirms that the historical record kept by NOAA et al is accurate. According to the study's author, Dr. Kevin Cowtan (who has authored other pause-busting studies), NOAA provides all the data and methods to allow "a citizen scientist [to run tests] with only modest computational skills."
Dr. Cowtan, taking the scientific tenet of reproducibility to heart, set out to recreate the historic temperature record from the ground up, and in so doing, he confirmed that the scientists being scrutinized by Smith the aren't introducing any undue bias. Cowtan has written a brief and lay-friendly assessment, and he even has produced a video walking through the homogenization of temperature data.
His methods and data are available online so that any remaining "skeptics" are free to reproduce his work (and by extension, NOAA's) to see for themselves just how manipulated the temperature record really is.
So far, it doesn't seem like anyone's taken him up on the offer. Including Rep. Smith.
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