> I think it's fine to make adjustments, but the destroying, or making the raw data harder to obtain is unscientific and unethical. What are you referring to?

> I think it's fine to make adjustments, but the destroying, or making the raw data harder to obtain is unscientific and unethical. What are you referring to? Not only is the raw data included in these graphs and used to readjust the computed data in new studies all the time, so obviously not destroyed, but you can go download the raw data right now: ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/ushcn/v2.5/readme.txt