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> This is not an error that affects climate research. If they're wrong about the things that I can check, why should I assume that they're correct about the th

• Tichy 17y ago
  I am pretty sure if you look hard enough, you can find errors in almost every text. Communication requires a minimum of goodwill on part of the listener. Reminds me of one of my favorite characters, Till Eulenspiegel. His alleged favorite pastime was to misinterpret directions people gave him (because language is ambiguous). Perhaps science should be written in Lojban? Haven't looked into it, but it seems to be designed to be unambiguous.
• zmmmmm 17y ago
  Perhaps you could sample a large number of their statements and perform a statistical analysis to determine if they wrong with high probability? Oh, yes, that would be a lot of work and we have something called the "scientific process" for doing that anyway. It's much easier to form a snap judgement based on a single, self-selected piece of information.