Fox re-breaks some news from a Chris Horner item at Big Journalism:
NASA Data Worse Than Climate-Gate Data, Space Agency Admits
NASA was able to put a man on the moon, but the space agency canโt tell you what the temperature was when it did. By its own admission, NASAโs temperature records are in even worse shape than the besmirched Climate-gate data.
E-mail messages obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that NASA concluded that its own climate findings were inferior to those maintained by both the University of East Angliaโs Climatic Research Unit (CRU) โ the scandalized source of the leaked Climate-gate e-mails โ and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationโs National Climatic Data Center.
The e-mails from 2007 reveal that when a USA Today reporter asked if NASAโs data โwas more accurateโ than other climate-change data sets, NASAโs Dr. Reto A. Ruedy replied with an unequivocal no. He said โthe National Climatic Data Centerโs procedure of only using the best stations is more accurate,โ admitting that some of his own procedures led to less accurate readings.
โMy recommendation to you is to continue using NCDCโs data for the U.S. means and [East Anglia] data for the global means,โ Ruedy told the reporter.
โNASAโs temperature data is worse than the Climate-gate temperature data. According to NASA,โ wrote Christopher Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute who uncovered the e-mails. Horner is skeptical of NCDCโs data as well, stating plainly: โThree out of the four temperature data sets stink.โ
The rest here.





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