Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and beginning April 20th, 2021 (Eastern Time) the Yahoo Answers website will be in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.
Trending News
Do you think the Enron executives would have been bold enough to use accounting software that is as obviously?
designed to cook the books as the CRU climate software?
My, my. Experts on a science that relies heavily on computer models can't understand a simple discussion of the code of that model?
Let's break it down a little for you. Harry_read_me.txt appearantly details 3 years of a programmer hired by CRU who is unable to use CRU's program and CRU's data to match CRU's published results, even with input from the original programmer.
The programming includes in the comments things like:
"Uses "corrected" MXD - but shouldn't usually
; plot past 1960 because these will be artificially adjusted to look closer to
; the real temperatures."
"Specify period over which to compute the regressions (stop in 1940 to avoid
; the decline"
"why does the sum-of-squares parameter OpTotSq go negative?!!" (squares are ALWAYS positive)
"’NOTE: recent decline in tree-ring density has been ARTIFICIALLY
REMOVED"
"Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!"
3 Answers
- TrevorLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Sorry Rob, you're going to have to explain it a bit more and please... no links to pages of what look like some kind of alien language.
- berenLv 71 decade ago
Two Comments:
1.) Fortran is still the standard in science. Theoretical chemists and physicists still use it exclusively. This guy is out of the loop.
2.) Take any large chunk of code you want and you can find programming no-nos. Has the author published some of his code to world so that we can pick it apart as well?
