Over the weekend everyone was poring through the CRU emails looking for, well, everything. But emails were only part of what was released into the wild.
Also out there is a file called HARRY_READ_ME.txt. Computer programmers usually include a comments file (aka a readme) with their software and data to explain decisions they make, anomalies they discover and so on. This file contains 15,000 lines of comments from the programmers as they try to fit the results of their programs and data to PREVIOUS results. In other words, they are retroactively massaging their computer models to account for current results.
I am looking forward to someone taking this dataset and code, cleaning it up and running it. Then we will see what it actually represents.
Monday, November 23, 2009
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