The other shoe drops - the CRU code
A. W. Montford writing at Bishop Hill has been doing an excellent job of monitoring and compiling the work that people are doing with the thousands of lines of FORTRAN code contained in the CRU whistleblower "leak".
This post in particular points out a few of the more eggregious snippets:
The Code
The code
This is a new thread for updates on the analyses of the data and code freed from CRU.
Everybody, I'm sinking under weight of things to do here. I need you to post one or two line analyses of what you are finding in which bits of code. I'll transfer these to the main post as they come in. It needs to be in layman's language and to have a link to your work.
CRU code
- Francis at L'Ombre De L'Olivier says the coding language is inappropriate. Also inappropriate use of hard coding, incoherent file naming conventions, subroutines that fail without telling the user, etc etc.
- AJStrata discovered a file with two runs of CRU land temp data which show no global warming per the data laid out by country, and another CRU file showing their sampling error to be +/- 1°C or worse for most of the globe. Both CRU files show there has been no significant warming post 1960 era
- A commenter notes the following comment in some of the code:"***** APPLIES A VERY ARTIFICIAL CORRECTION FOR DECLINE*********"
- Good layman's summary of some of the coding issues with a file called "Harry". This appears to be the records of some poor soul trying to make sense of how the code for producing the CRU temperature records works. (rude words though, if you're a sensitive type)
- Some of annotations of the Harry code are priceless - "OH **** THIS. It's Sunday evening, I've worked all weekend, and just when I thought it was done I'm hitting yet another problem that's based on the hopeless state of our databases. There is no uniform data integrity, it's just a catalogue of issues that continues to grow as they're found."
And this is just the first five links -- eight more to go through.
Amazing stuff -- seriously amazing...
Posted by DaveH at November 25, 2009 8:49 PM
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