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It’s *always* a retired engineer, even if as here you’ve got to do a MAD fold-in to get there

The Australian newspaper has been claiming a "forensic audit report" shows BoM's temperature data has "widespread error". For 15 years climate sceptics have been claiming a conspiracy around the data. Is anything different this time?

theguardian.comThe BoM’s temperature record keeping is under attack – again. What’s going on? | Temperature CheckAn ‘audit’ of the Bureau of Meteorology main dataset for measuring climate change claims it contains ‘widespread errors’. It doesn’t stack up

Tim Lyons

@picketer.bsky.social

Fake news. Sometimes it's a geologist.

Possum

@pollytics.bsky.social

Didn't he die? (I mean, actually, rather than inside)

Patrick Stokes

@patrickstokes.com

Plimer’s still alive, wouldn’t shock me to learn there’s more than one of them though

Possum

@pollytics.bsky.social

Oh shit - he was a geologist too! Not the dick I'm thinking of!

Tim Lyons

@picketer.bsky.social

There has been a few - turns out knowledge in one very important and highly techincal area doesn't transfer across seamlessly.

Patrick Stokes

@patrickstokes.com

I guess working on changes that occur over geological time would probably make you inherently suspicious of claims for rapid changes over mere decades or centuries. Surely it’s that, and nothing to do with who the biggest and best-paying employers of geologists are.

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